Interesting... So how do you think an independent Bavaria could get started? I was just reading a book about how the US-occupied zone (roughly Bavaria) needed a lot of trade with the British-occupied zone to restore its economy. Oh, and we'd probably need to switch the two occupation zones around (which would mean switching around the rough alignment of troops from D-day on), because I could see the British restoring a king a lot more easily than the US doing it.That would have been successful, Crown Prince Rupprecht and his son Prince Albert were deeply popular and respected before and after the war and would have been popular rulers of Bavaria.
Now what effect do you think an independent, presumably West-aligned, Bavaria would have on the Cold War?