What If Prussia Never Expanded Into Modern-Day GERMANY?

The politics of Europe have often shifted and changed over the years. But what if modern Germany had Prussian borders instead?

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[Sg.dornan]

3 Problems that needed to be adressed in this video:

1. The borders shown is the North German Confederation, not Prussia.

2. Austria-Hungary has Bosnia, which is sort of incorrect for the time period (1860's-1870's)

3. Bulgaria is nowhere to be seen.

[Hannodb]

Lets just all admit that the shape of the second german empire was prettier than the modern German state.

[Shef]

Poland: where is our coast?
Prussia: No beaches?

[mcbreitzh]

The Borders Shown here are not the Prussian borders but rather the Borders of the North German Confederation (1866-1871). What is also important to know is that the prussian territories that germany lost in the East where not their main Industiral zone that was the Rhineland which germany still holds today so it wouldn't make a strong difference.

[felixnimo]

This is the North German Confederation, not Prussia. In both cases, you missed Hohenzollern 😬

[kamerafreak]

East Prussia wasn't Prussia's economic mainzone but the Rhineland which is still part of the federal Republic. Something which i think is a more important detail is that Kaliningrad would still be Königsberg and Russia would loose at least some influence on Eastern Europe

[nblol]

Fun fact: If Prussian borders were reinstated today, there would be the creation of 2 new doubly land-locked states

[cyrus]

Germany should be given the prussian lands back

[samuan]

Poles would have reasons to rebel unless a kaiser or somebody else would solve Polish question

[nick]

Title: What if Prussia never expanded into modern-day Germany
The video: Shows bordersnof the Noth German Federation instead of Prussia

O.O

[Slashingllama]

I think germanys 1920 borders where the best had all ethnic Germans should return to that

[fwiii]

If we performed a conversion to a parliamentarian monarchy instead of a democracy in 1918 that let radical forces outsmarting the system, we could have prevented WW2. We would still have a Kaiser but just for representative purposes. And we would not let anyone into the country just to show how human we r now. Refugees are not welcome except the ones who want to ameliorate the country by offering their skills and are interested in a peaceful co-existence.

[benanjerris]

Germany already being europe's economic powerhouse and 4th strongest economy of the world. So basically nothing would be different

[mike]

"What would Europe look like if Germany had kept its Prussian territories?" Allow me to introduce you to this wonderful thing called "The German Empire, also you forgot Alsace-Lorraine so L+Ratio

[I_am_bacon._.]

Those weren't the prussian borders. Those were the borders of the unified german empire which lasted from the end of the franco prussian war in 1871 to the treaty of versailles in 1918.

[epttvyoutube]

Ok so the first map you show is just the German Empire (1871-1919) without Alsace-Lorraine, then instead of Prussia you show the North German Confederation with Schleswig and Hanover already integrated, and then you proceed to call the German Empire Prussia for the rest of the video

[kanekeyanah]

"what would Europe look like if Germany kept Prussia?" better💀

[rezaganjizadeh]

France would have siezures quite often

[amoranimation]

Germany : normal
Germany with prussian border : ww1 country

[gunnigasig]

Germany has the strongest Economy of Europe anyways 😅even without the Prussian territories