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The German Question


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The dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806 raised the question of the future of the German states. Was there to be a new German Empire under Habsburg leadership (the ‘Greater German Solution’), or under Prussian leadership and excluding Austria (the ‘Lesser German Solution’)? In two victorious wars against Austria (1866) and France (1871), Prussia prosecuted the Lesser German Solution, establishing a German Empire under the Hohenzollern dynasty.

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