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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: