The FAB win against the Nazis: does Bavaria go independent

The Freiheitsaktion Bayern FAB was a group led by Rupprecht Gerngroß, a resistance movement active in Bavaria near the end of WWII. They triggered a failed insurrection, but also inspired a successful uprising in Dachau. Gerngroß also encouraged the Bavarians to attempt to surrender to the Allies.

What if they were successful? And what if they attempted to claim themselves independent to escape harsher occupation? Would Bavaria become independent?
 

shiftygiant

Gone Fishin'
My first response would be that Bavaria is an American occupied Area, so you'd need an American commander sympathetic to the cause, as well as large swaths of Bavarian's calling for secession. However, because of the need for a unified West Germany in response to East, I can see this not happening.
 
My first response would be that Bavaria is an American occupied Area, so you'd need an American commander sympathetic to the cause, as well as large swaths of Bavarian's calling for secession. However, because of the need for a unified West Germany in response to East, I can see this not happening.

West german became a Federal state, with Bavaria having Status of "free state"
 
What if Bavaria is independent but it has to have a mutual defense and foreign policy with the rest of Germany.

Plus, what if this is one of those timelines where the Soviets' advance stop further east?
 
Robert I & IV, King of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Bavaria

I seem to recall that a senior American commander in the Occupation was a Jacobite sympathizer. Kronprinz Rupprecht of Bavaria was the Jacobite Pretender!

With some sympathetic support, they FAB might go for the King Over the Water.
:D
 
I could make a new thread for this, but I might as well repurpose this:

How likely would it be for the Allies to pursue a postwar policy of reviving monarchies for the sake of creating new governments with popular legitimacy, and as an anti-communist policy?
 
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