Why weren't Baden, Würtemberg and Bavaria independent states ever restored, unlike Austria?
score:8
Accepted answer
Splitting up western Germany like that would've weakened western Germany as a counter to East Germany. Quickly after the war the allies saw the benefit of a strong West Germany against the Soviet bloc. This is why the plan to reduce Germany into a pastoral society with massive starvation was quietly abandoned and Marshall Plan aid became a thing instead.
Plus no one asked for it at the time. Maybe it would have been easy to make a case for independent Bavaria, but the case wasnt made.
Upvote:6
The structure of post-war Germany was defined by the Allied governments and leaders, not by the Germans. Half of Wurtemberg was in the French zone, the other half in the US zone. This is what Stuttgart, one of the principal cities in Wurtemberg, looked like in 1945:
People were literally building huts out of rubble as shelters. Just finding water was a huge problem. They were in no condition to rule anything or start making claims to stateship. I suspect independent Bavarian nationalism was not really an active political movement in 1945.
More post
- 📝 Was there a way for ships to disengage from boarding actions?
- 📝 Why was it Italy that attack ed Tripoli under Ottoman control in 1911?
- 📝 How did 2nd century Romans decide where to build Hadrian's wall?
- 📝 In the early 1900s, how did US politicians treat black dignitaries from other countries?
- 📝 Were defendants at the Nuremberg trial allowed to deny the holocaust?
- 📝 Does it make sense to mention months (and days) in any BCE date?
- 📝 What kind of siege weapons were used during Punic wars?
- 📝 Why didn’t Britain use its vast navy to get past trench warfare?
- 📝 Did Jewish families feel Nazi oppression was exceptional?
- 📝 Why didn't Romans fight in a single line formation?
- 📝 British royal titles for regions not in Britain
- 📝 Elevated walkway in background at 1980s Potsdamer Platz seen in Wim Wenders' film “Der Himmel über Berlin”
- 📝 Kingdom of Judah under Babylonian rule
- 📝 Did senior US officials advocate a 'a final solution' for the 'red race' circa 1905?
- 📝 Why do the Japanese sing Ode to Joy during the Japanese New Year?
- 📝 How did the French word 'familier' become associated with the concept of Magical Familiars, historically?
- 📝 What is the difference between a typescript and manuscript?
- 📝 Why did France support the Confederacy in the Civil War?
- 📝 Border between the Western and Eastern Roman Empires
- 📝 Does special perception of rhyme by humans indicate importance of poetry in prehistoric era?
- 📝 Has there ever been a civilization that had no human enemies?
- 📝 What did Yuri Gagarin do while waiting for his ride?
- 📝 What happened to the British convicts transported to America after the American Revolution?
- 📝 Does a description of the original design for the Great Seal of the United States by Simitiere survive?
- 📝 Did the Trojan Horse actually exist?
- 📝 What is the definition, usage, and etymology of “Sandy ware”?
- 📝 Is taking away decorations of traitors a normal modus operandi?
- 📝 What were the demographics and economics of South-East Asian islands around year 1400?
- 📝 How and why was the boundary between West and East Berlin decided to be where it was?
- 📝 How long would it take to sail from New Orleans to Belize in late Summer 1867?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Why weren't Baden, Würtemberg and Bavaria independent states ever restored, unlike Austria?
- 📝 As newly independent countries after WWI, why didn't Baltic states have sovereignty dispute and war each other like other Eastern European countries?
- 📝 Why did no Independent American Indian states ever develop?
- 📝 Why does the United States keep using "old" date representations and imperial system, while being in the minority?
- 📝 Why are the USA and Canada's states border so straight?
- 📝 Why did civilisation/city states never take root in Australia and North America?
- 📝 Why did the states that were born out of the Louisiana purchase adopt a common law system, and not a civil law system?
- 📝 Why is there a difference in ordinal numbers of UK General Elections and Parliaments? Was a UK Parliament ever formed without an election?
- 📝 Why did Nepal and Bhutan not become a part of India like other princely states when colonial rule ended?
- 📝 Why didn't invaders of India ever cross into Myanmar and beyond (east)?
- 📝 Why didn't Saudi unification include the coastal states of Qatar, the UAE, Oman, Yemen, and Kuwait?
- 📝 Why were the continuity states of Imperial and Royal Austria-Hungary disunited, while the continuity states of Imperial Russia were united?
- 📝 Why didn't all non-Russian states become independent during the collapse of the Soviet Union?
- 📝 Has a sovereign Communist government ever run, and conceded loss, on a fair election?
- 📝 Why China was able to unify and not Europe?
- 📝 Why were old fortifications shaped like stars and not like circles?
- 📝 Why is the consensus that WW2 started on September 1, 1939 and not July 7, 1937?
- 📝 Why did North America economically prosper, and maintain stable government and South/Central America didn't?
- 📝 Why exactly did telegraphs have to use "STOP" instead of a period and "QUOTE" instead of a quotation mark? (Or special codes.)
- 📝 Why didn't France and the UK invade Germany in September 1939?
- 📝 Why Were Madagascar and New Zealand Discovered So Late?
- 📝 Why are the German and French languages so different?
- 📝 Why did Britain and France not declare war against the Soviet Union when it invaded Poland in WW2?
- 📝 Why didn’t Japan attack the West Coast of the United States during World War II?
- 📝 Why did LBJ, a staunch segregationist, champion and sign the 1964 Civil Rights Bill?
- 📝 Why didn't the US and USSR jam each other's early-warning radar?
- 📝 Why were Spain and Portugal neutral / not invaded in WWII?
- 📝 If the Union Jack joins the flag of England and Scotland, why does it have a different shade of blue than the Scottish flag?
- 📝 Why is AD in Latin and BC is in English?
- 📝 Why did Greeks and Romans dilute their wine?