what happened here
Prussian superiority
>>222762492>[state with the largest territory] superioritywho could've thought
>>222762438It was pretty epic. Coincided with the part of Euro history literally nicknamed the good times = belle epoque and it was also pretty much the only time Germany was a normal country (except weimar republic) + all the SOVL that was left from le old times. not much of that left nowthe borders did not mean much at that point. pre-2nd reich germany was notorious for toll border crossings
Germany is a conglomeration of different peoples who hate each other but need to stick together or they'll get dabbed on by their neighbors
>>222762770>tollexcuse me toll I meant customs. Before the Prussians molded Germany into existence every local ruler had his own economic zone basically
>>222762566>thinking territorial size is the metric for superiority>acting as if Prussia just magically became the largest without earning ityou are one hell of a stupid mofo
>>222763063>earning itrussia wanted polish land and prussia were its neighbours after that poles unironically unified germany for germans
>>222763324Was just about to say this, Prussia was shitty land ruled by people wholly foreign and uninterested in it, poor and feudal until the end of WW1
>>222762492>>222763063picrel>>222763324>after that Poles unironically unified germany for germansliterally this
>>222762438Where exactly do you mean? >>222762566Considering that the Kingdom of Prussia grew from one of the poorest states of Germany it is quite impressive. >>222762908Related to the many customs borders before the German Customs Union/North German Confederation/German Empire from 1848. It reads: >You see, Mr. Borderguard, that I have nothing to declare; for what is at the back of the wagon hasn't crossed the Lippe border yet, there is nothing in the middle, and what is at the front has already crossed over to the other side of the Lippe border.
>>222762438culture and science
>>222764987>germany is polish because a 4chan shitposter from 19th century said sonietzsche however is right that westerners are useless cattle, roman serfs who were germanised
>>222762770>except weimar republicwhat the fuck are you talking, the weimar republic was the exact clown government we have today
>>222765627well I was mostly referring to Prussia but I trust Nietzsche
Reminder that Weimar Germany was the first modern German national state, in the true meaning of the term, also the first that actually had a unified army btw. Which also makes modern Germany a new state born after WW1, at the same time as Poland and Czechoslovakia.>but the German EmpireA bunch of different states glued together, each different monarchies, governments and armies. Germany in WW1 still had "Prussian" and "Bavarian" armies like it was the Napoleonic era.
>>222766608nothing but mental gymnastics
>>222766608Nowadays the different federal states also have their own governments. And in wartime the "different" armies would fall under the high command of the prussian king. Equipment and uniforms were also standardised under the German Empire. Same goes for the civil law.
>>222766608you are right in your analysis but wrong in your conclusion. the first German national state was actually the North German Confederation of 1867 which was essentially just extended to the southern German states and renamed in 1871.>A bunch of different states glued togetherthat's just federalism.
>>222766608They only unified the legal codes in 1900 iirc, 30 years after the founding date, so give more time they probably would have slowly centralized around Berlin either way, it just happened quicker with the revolutions deposits all the monarchies post ww1
>>222768340>it just happened quicker with the revolutionsno, it didn't. weimar republic was the same but with a republican paint
>>222768528nope, the Weimar Republic was considerably more centralized than the German Empire
>>222768583I wouldn't say centralized more like the locus of power shifted from Prussian ministries to Republican government, the whole Minister-President of Prussia no longer being Reichkanzler
>>222762438>a bunch of sub-national monarchies owning random plots of land hundreds of kilometres apartPure SOVL, WW1 was the greatest disaster in Western history>>222766608Only Bavaria had a seperate army, and that was done away with shortly after WW1 began
>>222768817>Only Bavaria had a seperate armyWrong. Saxony and Württemberg also had armies. >and that was done away with shortly after WW1 beganAlso wrong. The Military Conventions of 1866/71 and the November Treaties of 1870/71 ruled that the armies of all member states were to be placed under the high command of the prussian king in the case of war.
>>222766287I refuse to believe the first German republic was that cucked. But Germans being Germans I bet there was a lot of Gutmensch smart assery back then already
>>222769707republics are inherently cucked, it doesn't have anything to do with what nation it is.
