Have Bavaria partitioned off after WW I? Without Bavarian voters you'd have far more stable coalitions.
That could backlash easily, munching away another part of the Fatherland plays in the Hands of the extremists right.
Have Bavaria partitioned off after WW I? Without Bavarian voters you'd have far more stable coalitions.
It would be interesting if the British put aside their love affair with the French and decided to start dating this now economically prosperous German that is also a democracy. With France probably degenerating with colonial wars and losing money while Germany starts getting more powerful.
But not a Germanwank..
I think that is clichéd thinking. For decades, there is talk about the US bein Atlantic or Pacific... It was Pacific when expanding into that realm in the 1900s, yet in the 1910s came back to Europe, which is also, sorry, its cultural lighthouse - and the other way round, American influence will always find its most fertile ground among their European cousins.
But I think that Franco-German rapprochement is rife earlier. Politicians from both sides can work upon the foundations laid by Stresemann/Briand. OTL, up until 1939 German and French veterans associations (in the case of Germany a NS-organisation at this point) organized meetings of veterans of both sides in Verdun. And the question of Alsace-Lorraine was actually almost as undisputed as past-1945.
I am not so sure, as the start European Collaboration lies almost directly after the war. That is not so far from 1933 as one might think. Also, I doubt that the urgency of European co-operation becomes that prevalent without the experiences of WW II and the Cold-War-Antagonism.
If economic interests come to that, we might have a viable core for a Europe. I think, however, that creating a sphere of influence in Southeaster-Europe might be harder for the Republic to do than it came to the Iron Fists of the Nazis.
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I was refering to economic power,and how about germany in a group of european nations some sort of an E.U.The Weimar Republic was not as powerful as Britain or Soviet Russia, and rather at the same level as France. It will also not become a Großdeutschland until 1939 for several reasons.
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-Austria probably remains independant; unless it returns to become a democracy (Kanzler Dollfuß governed as a dictator, and Schuschnigg after him) and Germany solves the Italian veto over that issue..
The european collaboration will see for this,and if thinks don't work (CSR refuses to join in ) a more reasonable Germany will support a the separatist in Slovakia.-I do not see action against the CSR. The Czechs were not profoundly nice to the Germans within the CSR, but not harsh enough to justify a war. The utmost I can see is Germany putting pressure on Prague in order to grant the Germans autonomy in the sense of a federal solution (something the Slovaks would favour, too).
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- Germany will have to see after its budget. The Nazis created an artificial economic boom for which they had no intention to ever pay. The republic would need an official budget (although they would have gotten rid of the reparations in 1932, too).
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Not one directly but through an Europeanwank.
I believe a form of european collaboration is need to avoid a major war in Europe.