AHC: Polish Berlin

Brightflame

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Thats not the point. The maps intention is that a secret plot is ticking. And every neighbour nation is again part in it. :rolleyes:

It's the Dutch! First they overthrow King James, now they are after the Fatherland as well!

My timeline has a massive Hohenzollern led Polish Empire. But they didn't possess Berlin.
 
The Wendish Crusade of 1147 either fails or never happens. Germany remains restricted west of the Elbe. The Nordmark continues to be Wendish, an ethnicity of the Western Slavs. At some point, the Christian kings (or high dukes) of Poland conquer the territory instead.

There technically is no city called Berlin, although there is a strong possibility a town will still be settled at the same site. Because the rise of Berlin was due to the Hohenzollerns specifically building a military state, the chances of our pseudo-Berlin being a major city is slim.
 
Prussia is defeated thoroughly in the Seven Years War and Berlin is ceded to Poland. The Prussian defeat could have happened if Peter III was not Tsar of Russia.

It did happen, Elisabet did formally annex east-prussia. But peter III gave it back, surrendered and then fought on prussias side to regain everything ;)

Anyways. With berlin occupied and east prussia annexed, a peace is drawn up. Austria gets silesia back and things quiet down elsewhere. Some kind of russian dominant triple union with fargoing autonomy might be attempted now that austria cannot prevent it alone and prussia is too weak to challenge anyone. In strength prussia has little more than saxony.

Such a loss and humiliation will ofcourse spark a attempt at revanch (see sweden after losing the baltics), and will see prussia.. or is it brandenburg(?).. defeated as many times as it takes.
And in one of those wars the border is pressed a few more km to the west, taking berlininto the commonwealth. Or in this case the autonomous poland.
 
hmmm... it will affect the histories of Germany, Poland and the Sorbs/Lusatians. (and Central and Eastern Europe, in general)
 
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