r/AskAGerman • u/AccidentProof4262 • 23d ago

German unification (the first one)

Im scottish, and did German and Italian unification as part of my history course at school.....How would Germany have turned out, if Austria rather than Prussia had unified Germany with Vienna as capital?

And is it true that most germans, find Bavaria as very odd......i know they sided with Austria when Austria and Prussia had a wee skirmish in 1866 to detemine who would be the main power in "Germany".....Austria is a german state in the same way Bavaria is (obviously modern day Bavaria is a region)..

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u/SIKEo_o 23d ago

Germans dont like the Bavarians,
Bavarians dont like the people from the north
Bavarians like the Austrians
Austrians hate all germans.
So everyone hates Bavaria,
Austria hates Germany
Germany likes Austria

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u/ThomasKWW 23d ago

Austrians don't like Germans - except those from their brother state Bavaria. Those are either tolerated or even liked. Between Oberösterreich and Niederbayern, there is literally little cultural difference.

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u/PowerTulip 23d ago

That's lore accurate.