Alternate Partition of Germany

That sounds odd, for some reason.
He was rather fond of the old monarchies. One quote of his that monarchists like to use:

Personally, having lived through all these European disturbances and studied carefully their causes, I am of the opinion that if the Allies at the peace table at Versailles had not imagined that the sweeping away of long-established dynasties was a form of progress, and if they had allowed a Hohenzollern, a Wittelsbach and a Habsburg to return to their thrones, there would have been no Hitler. To Germany a symbolic point on which the loyalties of the military classes could centre would have been found, and a democratic basis of society might have been preserved by a crowned Weimar in contact with the victorious Allies.
 
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I think in order to have a partitioned Germany, you need to delay the Cold War, and have the allies control Germany, two very difficult things to both do, because if the allies take Germany, the USSR is going to be pretty annoyed. The way I could see this happening is that the allies and the USSR agree to partition Germany before hand, and then the new Germany states become pawns in the Cold War, but either side uniting them is strictly taboo, due to the alternate Yalta Conference and Cold War politics. I've always thought this situation is cool because after the end of the Cold war, there is room for a new Bismark figure to unite all the states..even the 'People's Democratic Republic' ones...by any means necessary.
 
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