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Why was Prussia so powerful that it could defeat both Austria and some other large German states? Was it a total defeat or why did the Austrians give up after Koniggratz?
Would the Austrians have united Germany had they won and how would such a state have looked/worked compared to the Kaiserreich?
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>>2934561
>Would the Austrians have united Germany had they won and how would such a state have looked/worked compared to the Kaiserreich?
It'd probably look more like a federation HRE style and less like greater Prussia .
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>>2934565
Why didn't they want to rule over Germany like the Prussians?
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>>2934571
They did but Austria's style is different.
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>>2934571
The Hapsburgs, ruling a weird diverse empire, explicitly tried to downplay nationalism, thus unifying the German-speaking peoples would have been a bad idea.
inb4 "white people can't be diverse"
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>>2934571
Because the Habsburgs already have their hands full with Hungary, North Italy and the Balkans. They couldn't pacify the German peoples without making concessions to sacrifice their other holdings, and especially not with having to negotiate with Prussia.
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>>2934561
>yfw you realize most of what used to be Prussia is now Poland and the Germans got kicked out
It's like they needed to purge that evil from history and utterly erase any sign of its existence.
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