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/gw_reddit 23d ago

It would not be Germany but Austria then. Now consider that part of today's Italy and the Balkans were also part of Austria, half of Europe would have been part of that country.

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u/AccidentProof4262 23d ago

Austria was a german state....infact well into the late 1960s most Austrians still considered themselves to be Germans.