Reminder: Germany never had a successful empire. >Holy >Roman

>naming your country second and third empire
>never even have a first empire
so this is the power of german autism

Prussian empire best empire desu

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>>2440137
>1871-1919
>less than half a decade

>>2440137
We'll see how the EU does.

>Germany
>germ many
>many germs

what did they mean by this? is this a roman name because germanic tribes didn't bathe?

>>2440137
Yet their nobility ruled half of Europe

>>2440137
>implying the >>> wasnt one of the most powerful governments in europe for many years

>2nd reich
>lass than half a decade
what the fuck are you talking about

>3rd reich
>a single decade
yeah but they crashed the plane with no survivors

>>2441555
>wasnt one of the most powerful governments in europe for many years

In terms of size yes, but they lost a war to France which was smaller and italian rebels.

>>2441563
>but they lost a war to France

The HRE lost dozens of wars to France in its existance

>>2441537
>GERMania
>Latin: germ
>Italian: germe

You might be on to something

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>>2441555
>>2441563
>every single state had a high degree of autonomoy
>dukes and archdukes fighting autistic wars against each other for centuries
>we wuz empire n shit

>>2441582
>hurrrrr its not because it wasnt extremely centralized

>>2441563
plenty of powerful states lost wars to lesser opponents, and because the empire never became as centralized as many of the other states it was never able to consistantly maintain a dominant position, but it was still quite influential for a long time

>>2441598
Extremely? There was ZERO centralization. The """"Emperor"""" was just a figurehead with no real power. You inherited a decent empire from the Franks and fucked everything up.

>>2441617
Emperors were fairly powerful until about the 13th century though