WI: Alt-German nationalist party that focuses on assimilation, not extermination

Assimilation is something Prussia/German Empire tried before and failed. Poles survived over 100 years of Prussian/German rule and rebelled against German rule when opportunity came and 100 years of Germanization was undone in just one generation. Thus genocide seemed as better solution for nazis-dead Poles would never rebel again.
Most people don't like having the native language banned from use in public or forbidden from education. A multilingual state where a linguistic minority makes its peace with the existing order and politically assimilates is feasible, but the assimilation policies of the late 19th century spoiled any chances of that.

The centralizing tendencies of the Kingdom of Hungary (in Austria-Hungary) and Prussia discredited the possibility of accepting the existing state. The Magyars managed to piss off all the subject nationalities around them with their own territories, but they did managed to assimilate the Jews in their half of the empire as "brotherly Magyar patriots of the Jewish faith". Unfortunately this contributed to post-1918 anti-semitism among Romanians, Slovakians, etc. because the local Jewish populations were associated with the Habsburg Empire and attacked as disloyal fifth columns in the new nation states.
 
I take the thread to raise a question, why in France people like the Bretons were able to assimilate and in Germany the Poles did not? I understand that the linguistic policies of France were also quite hard.
 
I take the thread to raise a question, why in France people like the Bretons were able to assimilate and in Germany the Poles did not? I understand that the linguistic policies of France were also quite hard.

The upper and proffesional classes in France had spoken French as a language of government, bussiness, culture, and literature: the Breton vulgate of the lower class thus never developed a firm grounding in cultural spheres or an intelligencia that could promote, preserve, and celebrate its unique identity and contributions when faced with assimilation pressures. Polish, on the other hand, had centuries of achievements to be proud of, a strong presence in local educational organs such as the Church and a Polish speaking domestic nobility and merchantile community, ect. This, combined with the fact the Germans had much less time controlling them without an independent Poland to push back, made it easy enough to endure
 
We all realize of course that if history had gone in a different direction . . . we’d be debating whether the small dopesville Nazi party could possibly rise to power, or whether that was ASB big time! :p
 
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