For the record, this religion map shows what exactly I am talking about here:Question--would it have been realistic for Prussia to win the Franco-Prussian War and yet to refuse to include Bavaria in the new German Empire afterwards (perhaps due to Bavaria's large number of Catholics)?
Any thoughts on this?
Can you please elaborate on this?If Bavaria isn`t included, it isn`t because Prussia doesn`t want them in.
Very true.I would have thought that annoying as the Prussians may have found the Bavarians, a Germany without Bavaria is a bit short of Germany. It no longer looks like the real deal with Austria as the outsider but just another "I could have been a contender" of a federation.
Given Bavarian official opinion on German unification ever since 1848 ff., and the total lack of Prussian reluctance to incorporate Catholic territories like Westphalia and the Rhineland, I would say that it´s much more likely for Bavaria to opt out than for Prussia to keep them out.Can you please elaborate on this?
Didn't Prussia hesitate to annex Austrian territory in 1866 due to their unwillingness to put more Catholics into Prussia, though?Given Bavarian official opinion on German unification ever since 1848 ff., and the total lack of Prussian reluctance to incorporate Catholic territories like Westphalia and the Rhineland, I would say that it´s much more likely for Bavaria to opt out than for Prussia to keep them out.
And Bavaria didn`t mind so much because of confessional matters, but because their kings didn`t want to become sidelined by a mega- Prussia.
Prussia did a lot of annexing in 1866. Not sure if gobbling up, what, Bohemia? Moravia?, would have been realistic.Didn't Prussia hesitate to annex Austrian territory in 1866 due to their unwillingness to put more Catholics into Prussia, though?