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Suppose that Germany had been partitioned into six independent states, as in this map. (For the sake of simplicity, just treat the international zones as part of Hesse.)
Suppose further that these states could not simply vote to reunite, due to strict limitations built into their constitutions. How would this situation develop during the decades to follow? What would each of the states look like, culturally and politically? What would be the population of each state, and its religious demographics? How would the Germanies line up vis-a-vis the Cold War? Would they split into Soviet and NATO blocs, or would they tend to opt for neutrality, like OTL Austria? How would the absence of a single German state affect other countries in Europe?