Is it plausible for East Prussia to break away from Germany?

As the title says. Was it ever plausible for East Prussia to break away from Germany after World War I? If so, how would the conditions make it so it happens?
 

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As the title says. Was it ever plausible for East Prussia to break away from Germany after World War I? If so, how would the conditions make it so it happens?
No, it couldn't survive on its own economically and needed Germany to defend it from Poland. It would be intensely stupid and ASB for them to even think they could or would want to given the impression German nationalism had on the minds of that generation of Germans.
 
I suppose if the WAllies get a lot further East after WW2 this is plausible. I can't see them ethnically cleansing the area, so they might try to set up an independent Prussia. Although they're just as likely to make it an autonomous region of Poland or something of the sort.
 
Not very plausible. Germany should collapse totally after WW1 that East Prussia would secede. There not be reason for this if Germany doesn't collapse totally. And E-P wouldn't even survive as independent nation. Poland and USSR would fight ownership of the area. And it might be too economically unviable.
 
I once entertained an idea about a civil war in Germany in 1918, with Wilhelm II refusing to abdicate, communists,anarchists, reactionarists and, let's say, Bavarian separatists fighting each other, the Entente occupying western Germany, a Polish uprising supported by western troops liberating / occupying much of OTL post WW1 Poland, including Danzig and Silesia, where even Germans decide they prefere Polish rule than a nightmare of civil war. Eventually Germany is divided, between independent Bavaria, German Republic (anti-monarchist fascists), with Kaiser and his followers finding refuge in East Prussia. Since GR is very hostile towards Poland (about Danzig and/or Silesia, among other things), Poles support EP of only to avoid giving it back to GR.

Originally posted by Lalli
Poland and USSR would fight ownership of the area.

Poland perhaps, although even Dmowski didn't want to take whole East Prussia. But at the time USSR had no common border with EP , since Batlic states were independent, not part of the Soviet Union. So no, unless we have Soviet Lithuania about 20 years earlier.
 

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random thought what about situation where th sa wins the power struggle in the early nazi state and becomes the replacement for the reichswher. traditionalist reichswehr and prussian agrarian conservatives resist the tide locally and keep a seperate power in east prussia?

we could say the sa wins out in one of two ways. they either move ahead of hitler before the night of the long knives, or hitler double or triple crosses his reichswehr and traditionalist conservative supporters in favor of a left nazism.
 
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