WI Prussia broken up after WW1

Thande

Donor
I'm not talking about Prussia being independent, mind. I mean the Prussian Free State that succeeded the Kingdom of Prussia within the German Empire/Weimar Republic after the monarchy was overthrown in 1918.

I was reading an American book from the 1950s about the Weimar Republic the other day, and the Americans argued that one reason why the Republic proved unwieldy and unsustainable was that the state of Prussia was larger than the rest of the states put together.

So WI the Prussian Free State had broken up in the 1920s and been reorganised? Say Westphalia, Hanover, Schleswig-Holstein etc become separate states within the Republic. How does this affect the fate of the Weimar Republic?

OTL map (with Free State of Prussia marked in blue and the rest of the Republic in orange) to illustrate what I mean:

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Markus

Banned
I was reading an American book from the 1950s about the Weimar Republic the other day, and the Americans argued that one reason why the Republic proved unwieldy and unsustainable was that the state of Prussia was larger than the rest of the states put together.

So much about Americans and how they (don´t) see the real world! Guess who ran the state of Prussia as long as it had democratically elected governments? Not the Nazis, not the ultra-conservatives, not some evil powers of militarism. No from 1920 to 1932 a stable coalition of (catholic) Centrists, the Liberals(not in the modern american sense) and the Social-Democratic Party. Destroy Prussia and you take away a pillar of democracy supporting the Rebublic.

My advice: Ignore this book! Wikipedia has probably ten times better info.
 
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