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German nationalists in the first half of the 19th century were divided between a Kleindeutschland ideal of a Germany including all of the OTL German Empire plus the German lands of Austria-Hungary, and a Grossdeutschland ideal in which all of the Austrian Empire was included. 1848 and the turn from Austria to Austria-Hungary made that much more difficult, but here's the challenge, or question: is it possible to make that idea a reality, so that a large German state with the Austrian Emperor with as much or only slightly diminished power over the other German states as the German Emperor had in OTL can be formed that still includes the whole of the Austro-Hungarian Empire? What would need to occur for that to happen?
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