First off, I'm not 110% sure if this belongs in Help and Feedback, so please forgive me if it does. I'm new here.
I'm currently writing my first AH world for a nation RP. I'm writing Germany first, as it plays a big role in European politics throughout the 20th century, having achieved victory in WWI. One of the things I wrote down for Germany was having a union with the Netherlands. I looked up the plausibility of the scenario, and came up empty. Oh, there were talks about what would happen if the Netherlands joined Germany, but nothing that would help me out. Most said that if the Netherlands was simply never a major power throughout its history, it would've joined Germany. I can't work with that because the POD starts sometime in the mid to late 19th century.
Is there anyway I can create a scenario where both countries have a major brotherhood of sorts that eventually unites the two countries?