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Long time lurker, good day nice to meet to you and all that. Forgive any possible naivete, I'm young dumb and full of.....actually just young and dumb.

Anyway, if the Central Powers were to prevail in WWI, taking into consideration that Austria-Hungary was in quite a state even before the war began how likely is it that given a potential disintegration of the AH empire Germany would annex Austria and a number of other former Habsburg provinces to form the Greaterdeustschland Bismarck had always dreamed of? Might the Austrians support this kind of "anschluss"? If this were to happen, what would this mean for Europe? I would imagine that Germany would become the pre-eminent power on the continent, what effect do you think this would have on the defeated allied powers, namely Britain and France? Could this enhanced Germany hope to contend with the U.S economically?

I appreciate your (potential) input!
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