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See above. Nowadays Austria stands somewhat significantly away from their cousins in Germany, at least so much as we can expect while sharing the same language. Netherlands is another Germanic country that stands quite away and never really shared in the whole Greater Germany ideal that proliferated in the 1900s. Bavaria is known to have retained quite a great deal of independence even under the Prussian-dominated German Empire. Switzerland is of course a multi-ethnic state featuring Germans, while Luxembourg was the sole avoider of the German unification efforts.

So, is there a way we could divide "Germany" into more sustainable, smaller states that last well into the 1900s and further? Saxony, Hannover, Bavaria, Hesse, Prussia and maybe some state in the Rhineland? Maybe a legitimate Friesland? What if the Hessian and Saxon stem duchies somehow weren't formed? Or what if the Prussians focused more on Poland rather than Germany?

Any thoughts?
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