1 Opposed, will demand stuff and ally with Russia or Italy to contain it.
2 Opposed, will try to prevent it but can intervene directly.
3 Opposed, will demand compensation or free hand in the Balkans
4 Opposed, will demand Italian clay.
5 Favourable if it helps them.
6-->12 Can´t do much anyway.
2. (Britain) i guess you mean can't? in that case agree, but i think if France or Russia poses a threat to England it might support a Unification to create a counterweight to them. Especially if they should ally.
3. (Russia) agreed, but not sur wether those demands would be met. Russia can't really intervene either, no real casus belli.
4. (Italy) Agreed, demands will probably not be met.
5-12 agreed
With a POD after 1600, impossible. The Dutch did not consider themselves German anymore and had no intention of joining any Germany. In the Dutch constitution personal unions (besides with Luxemburg) were forbidden to avoid being absorbed by Germany. Basicly Germany has to conquer the Netherlands and (besides the Nazi's) they never had any intention to do so. The entire world, including the Dutch and the Germans did not consider the Dutch to be Germans. If Germany would conquer them, everybody would see it as unprovoked expansionism. All the areas Prussia conquered during the wars of unification could be considered German or would have been a thread to Germany. Since the Netherlands was neither, Germany had left them alone. Trying to conquer the Netherlands would cause more harm than it would give them benefits.
I do think myself that it would be incredibly hard to annex/icorporate the Netherlands into a German Empire as the Dutch at that point were just their own nation. The thig you have to remember though, is that in this case we are not talking of a small-German solution (without Austria) as it was in otl in which case Germany was much more homogenous (few minorities, few Catholics, strong Prussian position) than it will be in my TL. The Germany of otl was 'more German' whih means that it would be harder to incorporate other cultures.
A Germany that includes Austrians, Italians, Chechs, more Poles and possibly some more of the Balcan people living in the Habsburg Empire before the Unification will be much more diverse, therefore easier to accept other cultures and for other cultures it would be easier to live there.
Still, it would be very hard but i guess that if there is some event that changes the attitude toward a netherland-ish entry. They could be:
- A royal marriage that is very popular on both sides of the border. You said the Danish constitution prohibited this though, I didn't know that, do you have a link? Thanks.
- A long war in which Germany and Netherlands fight on the same side, possibly protecting the Netherlands against french agression. The Netherlands could get back Belgium (which used to be part of it) as a reward for entering the German Empire.
- Danemark could enter the German Confederation as it nearly did in otl. During the Second Shleswig War, after Denmark lost, its King offered to enter the German Confederation to stop the victors from anexing Schleswig Holstein and protect the countries Unity. In this case, the German Empire would be more of a Germanic Empire which means that cultures which have another language but still te close to german culture could be included. Would kinda be a wank though, which I don't plan on doing.
@Mikestone8 I guess that could work. Thanks for the info.
Can you please give the timeline link?
The timeline ins't out yet, I'll post the link as soon as it is.
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GohanLSSJ2 Hm I'll have to think about that. It's true that the Jews in Germany were at the time included quite well into society, there would be no need for them to split of. But if for example in Russia the progroms get even worde then they did in otl and possibly in other countries too (possibly as a result of a Russo-German war), a lot of them could come pooring West and be too many to be assimilated quickly. In that case, Germany might possibly give them some Russian land to create their own nation, but I'm not sure wether the Christian Empires of Europe would tolerate a non-Christin nation on former-Christian soil. I'm not quite sure how important these religious aspects actually were, does someone have an idea about that?
