Germany ceases to exist as a nation after WWII?

[oberdada]

The allies might be able to get rid of Germany as a state, but not as a nation.
It didn't work with Poland, it won't work with Germany.

 

[Leonidas]

All of these bizarre partition maps miss the basic point of how Germany got unified in the first place—through Prussia, one of the strongest German states, dominating and in some cases conquering the others. This meant that Prussian militarism was a legitimized as a core institutional value of the new German Empire. The Allies might have been able to turn back the clock after WWI, but twenty years later is a long time for a unified German national identity to entrench itself. Thus, it would be extremely likely for one of these new states to attempt to repeat Prussia’s feat, and whether or not they succeed, you’re looking at years of bloodshed and maybe even another world war. The Allies weren’t blind to this fact either, and aside from reversing the Anschluss of Austria (as it was one of their earliest grievances against the Nazi regime), they engaged in a reconstruction project with the primary goal of removing the influence of militarism and Nazism as much as possible, not keeping the German nation subjugated while addressing none of the core factors that led to its aggression in the first place.

 

[Leonidas]

For the nominal Anglo Sphere (UK/US) in Germany, (while possibly not the best for stability) for the sake of keeping the German identity's as separate as possible I would suggest anchoring a protestant North German identity to Hanover's old relationship with the British by reinstating the British line with British succession law (as a constitutional monarchy with no actual impact but also allowing for female succession)

The British monarchy had severed its ties to the German nobility decades ago, and I can’t think of a better way to delegitimize it than by getting chummy with the same social circles that enthusiastically supported the Nazis.