A lot has been written today so I'm just shooting rom the hip.
I've been trying to think of a good analogue for the ME territories, they aren't going to be like colonies in Africa or anything but perhaps like Ireland and the Dominions in the British Empire. They will be given a considerable measure of self government but their foreign policy will be controlled from Berlin and they will be part of the German economic bloc before they make any other association and there will be regular debate in the Reichstag on Home Rule for any really fractious members.
As for the proto-Nazi thing, that does not denote that the KR isn't going to be rainbows and unicorns but rather that the HR wasn't a horrific dictatorship it was a constitutional monarchy and powers that be weren't in the war for living space and want to murder and enslave entire populations. The regular vibe that I and others rail against is people quoting what Ludendorff wanted as official German policy and the powers he and Hindy took on as how the KR and ME will be ruled for decades to come. I think it's lazy historiography, falling back on memes as arguments.
I've been trying to think of a good analogue for the ME territories, they aren't going to be like colonies in Africa or anything but perhaps like Ireland and the Dominions in the British Empire. They will be given a considerable measure of self government but their foreign policy will be controlled from Berlin and they will be part of the German economic bloc before they make any other association and there will be regular debate in the Reichstag on Home Rule for any really fractious members.
As for the proto-Nazi thing, that does not denote that the KR isn't going to be rainbows and unicorns but rather that the HR wasn't a horrific dictatorship it was a constitutional monarchy and powers that be weren't in the war for living space and want to murder and enslave entire populations. The regular vibe that I and others rail against is people quoting what Ludendorff wanted as official German policy and the powers he and Hindy took on as how the KR and ME will be ruled for decades to come. I think it's lazy historiography, falling back on memes as arguments.