WI:WWI Allies accept Bavaria's proposal for armistice?

Okay, I guess that was true in the case of the Bavarian Socialist Republic as well. All I know about the people at the time was that the monarchy in Bavaria was quite popular, I wonder if any other regions experienced that sort of pride in their local monarchs as opposed to the central government.
 

Thande

Donor
I think there could be sufficient public support for the Allies treating Bavaria as a new nation and just giving it a slap on the wrist for WW1. British propaganda of the period often emphasised the difference between the cultured Germany of the past (1700s and early 1800s) and the militaristic Prussian-led Germany post-1870. This could easily be spun as the good old Germany breaking out in one place and overthrowing the bad new one. And I think the Allies have more of an interest in doing this than they did to Austria when it tried it, because Bavaria is well positioned strategically to break up the Central Powers and lead to a general collapse.
 

Cook

Banned
I meant it would be a good ally against the Prussians. The newly empowered Bavarian/Austrian monarch will not want to lose his power to a German state again.
The concern would be that any future push for reunification would see the Austrians added to Greater Germany, which was something Clemenceau was determined to avoid; the treaties of Versailles and Saint Germain-en-Laye both forbid such a union.
 
Wait wait wait, what if going off of that idea, instead of Bavaria leaving Germany, what if they forced Prussia to become independent?!? Or hell maybe both leave Germany.
 

Cook

Banned
Or hell maybe both leave Germany.
I think they’d both be considered successor states to the German Empire, just as both Austria and Hungary were considered successor states to the Habsburg Empire.

I suppose the opportunity would be there for the allies to sell the line that ‘WW1 was Prussia’s War’ to the other German states. Blame the Junkers.
 
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