What? The destruction of Prussia was a travesty on almost every level, or did I miss this as a reference meant as an ATL in which historical Prussia isn't destroyed but split off in some kind of post war settlement. But I digress.
(( well off topic but if we are talking OTL .. it was dismantled before the war for most purposes ..Prussia was on the wrong side twice and blamed for the second one and dismantled. ))
at least thankfully in this time line Poland was allowed to keep its pre war borders, danzig was demilitarized with one bank given to the poles after the plebiscite.
Prussia is still an independent nation up to east berlin. they have moderated as a constitutional monarchy with the restored emperor and have proven that the days of war are behind them, hell even open borders with Poland and free trade agreements with Poland, litva, Czech, Slovak and the German-Austrian union as well as west Ukraine forming a central European customs union that has been the foundation for the continued talks at including other members to the union. even Hungary is coming around now a days
obviously Germany was a ruin after the war as was most of Europe, and those responsible for the war were tired and executed rightfully, both Germany, and Prussia have been paying their war debt ever since and have gone out of their way to be productive members of the world community upholding justice and equality.
You have seen pictures of the monument in new berlin to the end of the war, on the grounds of the old Reichstag. left as it was after the atomic bomb was dropped. It does not say that germany was a victim, but that it should "never rest or sleep and let tyranny blind the eyes of mankind again"
The travesty was that after Stalingrad fell and then Moscow the millions of Soviets that died because of Stalin and the NKVD and the occupation is something that will never be forgotten.
Both Germany and Prussia have been diligent to build new relations with the east. a national debt that will never be repaid for what took place, but at least they do not shy away from what took place, but are trying to build a new mutual understanding built on the ashes of the old
now imagine if the the germans lost at Stalingrad and the soviets could get to berlin first. do you think that revolutionary USSR would give up what It conquered? imagine the Nazi yoke, then replacing it with communism / Stalinism for who knows how long that would be.. remember they were on the side of the germans until the germans invaded. they were expansionist and opportunistic. it bit them .. unfortunately it bit them very hard.
Looking back after 70 years is one thting.. and Thankfully the world has never seen or hopefully will ever see such events take place again. but the price paid in human lives by the loss at Stalingrad and by the peoples of the soviet union and eastern Europe should never be forgotten.