>East Germany used to be the rich part of Germany
>>217650669Isn't it still pretty poor compared to west Germany
>>217651589He's talking about Prussia
>>217650669 Commies ruin everything they touch
>>217650669i know the timeline where the DDR was sooo rich and plentiful compare to the west that they have to built a damn wall to stop hordes of Wessi from jumping the fence to enter socialist heaven
>>217651589Yes but it's not nearly as bad. And the Reunification was a severe case of mismanagement in many areas. But Boomers do what they do best and that is fucking everything up for the following generations.>>217654029He probably means the times before WW2. Much of the heavy industry was located in Saxony and Silesia. And Brandenburg had a strong textile industry. In addition to the naval industry on the coast of the Baltic Sea.
>>217650669Lmao what? It was always the German backwater, ruled by Junkers who'd rather go back to feudalism than industrialize. Sure, there were some rich mercantile cities here and there and Silesia had some industry, but nothing like the Ruhr. The reason Prussia united the Germans was that they were mighty, not that they were rich.
>>217654429It depends on what you want to define as East Germany. The former GDR states? The easternmost lands of the Kingdom of Prussia? The many smaller states (like three Reuß or the multiple saxon states) post 1871 with/without the Kingdom of Prussia?
>>217654720My sense was that what is traditionally called East Germany is basically Prussia + Posen and maybe Saxony. I'm not German, though. So I might be wrong.So, it depends on the region, but neither of those had as much industry as the western part.
>>217655316>Saxony Mitteldeutschland
>>217650669east germany has always been a barely western silesian shithole
>>217650669Not really, pre WW2 the divide was mostly a urban rural one rather than a regional one.
>>217655316Until 1945 East Germany was understood to be those lands east of the Elbe river. With the consolidation of the GDR, its eventual fall and the definitiv determination of the german-polish border East Germany nowadays means the former member states of the GDR. Still historic designations like Middle Germany (Mitteldeutschland) are still being used today and are applied to Saxony and Thuringia for example.And the west also only industrialised heavily in the 19th century and prior to that also had severely poor regions like the Eifel and the Emsland. >>217655446Kek yeah those suck
>>217655688Teebeehaitch the Eifel's a proud shithole to this day
>>217650669>>217651624Prussia was the poor shithole of Germany even back then. It had a couple reach marcher lords and junkers and then a ton of poor farmers who complained about their noble lords leaving them unemployed and hiring Poles instead because the Poles worked for less.The rich part of Germany was the South and during modernity the Rhineland thanks to the massive industrialization of the region under the Krupps. Prussia eventually took over the Rhineland but that wasn't Prussia proper, which was still poor as shit.
>>217655446You failed the IQ test
>>217654429>>217655446Stop talking out of your ass.Saxony was the first part of Germany to industrialize, Chemnitz was the wealthiest German city once, now it is probably the poorest.They had automated weaving machines like they had in England, the rest of Germany followed later, but it was the railway industry that carried the industrialization, not weaving machines.To this day many of the most relevant West German companies have their origin in Central Germany, like Siemens (Berlin), Zeiss (Jena) and Audi (Saxony).Hell, even BMW only started getting into the automobile business because they purchased the Motorenwerke Eisenach.But neither you nor West Germans now this stuff and keep spreading lies.Just fuck you. I'm tired of explaining this shit over and over again.
>>217655446Dafuq is this shit looks like an IQ test thank God i haven't gotten this yet
because of industry or because it was the kaiser capital area?
>>217655954This suggests it would have become a shitty rust belt like the norf of ingerland not stayed rich
>>217656083Well they didn't go downhill once the weaving machines fell out of favor.Before 1945 they had a very strong car industry, in fact Auto Union was located there, which was basically the German equivalent of general motors.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto_Union
>>217655973>like an IQ test No you are just brown
>>217656339pot, kettle
>>217656368 Greeks are White
>>217655954The list of those german states are wrong.
>>217657014What's wrong about the list?
>>217657077I assume it is based on the structue of the Weimar Republic as the Reichsmark was introduced in 1924.Posen, Pommer, Rheinland, Silesia, Schleswig-Holstein, Brandenburg, Hannover, and Westfalen were all part of the Free State of Prussia.There was no constituent state called Darmstadt.There was no constituent state called Nassau.There was no constituent state called Kassel.There were no "Thuringian States" by the Weimar Republic.Saxony-Weimar (didn't mention Eisenach) and Saxony-Coburg (forgot Gotha) also didn't exist past 1918/19.The states represented in this table neither fit the German Empire nor Weimar Germany clearly.
>>217653940Tpbp
>>217655688Interesting. Thanks anon, I have spoken to many Germans irl, but it's always dissapointing how little they know about their own history and even geography. When you speak to them about Prussia they just give you the normgroid look because it must remind them of the lessons they didn't pay attention to in history class. It's the same with Spaniards. It's common all over the West.>>217655954In my post >>217655316 I said that what I consider East Germany includes Silesia, Pomerania, Prussia and Posen. I wasn't sure about Saxony and the previous anon corrected me. As I said, even if Silesia had some industry, East Germany was for the most part composed of junker landowners with massive rural states and a huge population of peasants. Anyone who knows even a bit about economics will tell you that's a recipe for a backwards state. The lords will try to hold on to their privileges and retard any kind of progress that bourgeois commercial societies will bring about. It's what happened in places like Spain and the reason why we industrialized later than Britain and France.
