Chapter 2079 Can only Be Emotions

Bavaria was absent, and the uprising was quickly suppressed. If it is said that Bavaria was dissatisfied with the ruler before and stood on a different team from other duchies, but now even with a common enemy, Bavaria is not on the same front as the rest of Germany. It's worth having fun!

On the surface, Bavaria is afraid of peasant uprisings, and the cracks in Germany hidden behind it are already obvious. What's more, the princes have the right to decide their own beliefs, and North and South Germany have already parted ways.

In the ensuing Thirty Years War in 1618, the southern German state headed by Bavaria stood on the side of Catholicism and fought against the northern Protestant camp. The conflict between religions has evolved into a competition for interests behind each country. Pai Germany considers more about the acquisition of interests in its own region.

Looking at the map, the entire German region is like a cheese-covered pizza block, which itself has been split into multiple pieces, leaving only the name and a title of "King of Germany" with an empty name to stick the parts together.

From the perspective of the location of the whole of Europe, the German region is sandwiched between the North Sea, the Baltic Sea and the Alps. The terrain is flat and the rivers criss-cross. Both transportation and infrastructure are extremely suitable for the development and growth of the empire.

It stands to reason that such a position should have stood out in history, but it just didn't form a powerful country.

In 1867, German unification took an important step. The North German Confederation was established under the leadership of Prussia. Wilhelm I became Emperor of Germany and Bismarck served as Prime Minister.

At this time, the central and northern parts were completely unified. In the south, there were four small states that still maintained their independence, including Bavaria.

Although seemingly independent, the small countries of Bavaria are actually controlled by France behind the scenes. In other words, the four independent countries in the south of the German region at that time were nothing more than puppet regimes controlled by the French Emperor Napoleon III. independent.

The goal of Napoleon III's life is to reproduce the glory of Napoleon's empire. He actively launched foreign wars. Naturally, these German states, which were pro-French, could not give up. Bismarck devoted his life to completing the unification of Germany.

One is the ambitious French emperor, and the other is the "iron-blooded chancellor" of Germany who is determined to unify. The two powers are fighting each other. Naturally, the Franco-Prussian War broke out between the two for the hegemony of the European continent.

Napoleon III was full of ambitions, and he was full of confidence in winning the Franco-Prussian War, but the reality was very serious: he was sung all the way by the new power Prussia, and broke into Paris, the old nest of Napoleon III. If there was nothing left, he was forced to cede the land to pay compensation, and his face was completely lost.

Not only the whole of southern Germany returned to its original owner,

Prussia also demanded the cession of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany, and France also demanded compensation of 5 billion francs to Germany.

Since then, the entire German region has been unified again, forming the main territory of Germany today.

So it is not difficult to see that Bavaria has historically been inseparable from the rest of Germany.

In the 9th century AD, the "Treaty of Verdun" signed when the Carolingian Dynasty of the Charles Empire collapsed divided the world into three parts and included the Bavaria region into Germany, so Bavaria belonged to Germany.

All subsequent German unification regimes retained Bavaria's autonomy.

Although Bavaria has become the territory of a unified Germany since modern times, the independent regional culture for thousands of years is still deeply rooted.

Unlike East Germany and West Germany in World War II, and also different from the Northern and Southern Confederations in the United States, Bavaria has had a very different historical origin from the rest of Germany from the very beginning. This has become one of the main factors of Bavaria's movement away from "Germany", and it is also the lingering historical gene of Bavaria.

However, Germany's current basic law does not allow a certain state to become independent, which prevents the possibility of independence from the source, and Bavaria's tendency towards independence can only be an emotion.

Of course, unless Bavaria is really united from top to bottom and strives for independence through political changes, that is another situation, and it is simply unrealistic.

From the baron's point of view, if Bavaria becomes independent, their family is likely to become the uncrowned king of a country, but whether they have the ability to hold on is another matter.

Bavaria has no estuary to the sea. Although there are Alps in the south as a barrier, there is an endless flat road in the north. German tanks can drive in unscrupulously and smash those beautiful castles in Bavaria directly.

So this kind of thing can only be thought about, but it is too difficult to really do it.

One-third of Bavarians are now independent, and more people still want to express their sense of superiority to the outside world?

Which aspect is superior? Of course it is economically superior!

Since the reunification of Germany in 1871, although Bavaria has obtained the greatest autonomy, the conflict between the Protestants in the north and the Catholicism in the south has always existed, and the two world wars have made the contradictions between the two sides more prominent.

The First World War finally ended with the defeat of the Allied Powers headed by Germany and Austria-Hungary. The defeat of Germany made Bavaria's independence sentiment reach its peak. The defeated Germany faced severe punishment from the Allied Powers, and Bavaria was not spared. More and more Bavarian nationalists doubted the wisdom of joining the German Empire at the time.

After the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918, Austria became a country dominated by Germans. Because of the same ethnic and religious beliefs as Austria, Bavaria wanted to join Austria.

At this time, communist ideology also began to sweep across Europe, and Bavaria was once independent and established the short-lived "Bavarian Soviet Republic".

However, due to the fear of communism and the fact that the great powers represented by the United Kingdom did not want to weaken Germany too much, the hope of Bavaria's independence was stillborn.

The punitive and harsh terms after the First World War made the sentiment of revenge pervade Germany all the time, and the great economic crisis in 1929 hit Germany hard.

** came to power through elections and became the number one dang in Germany, but it was an exception in Bavaria.

Due to the peak of nationalist sentiment in Bavaria after Germany's defeat in World War I, the Bavarian People's dang was established locally for the purpose of promoting Bavaria's independence. The rate has been lower than that of the Bavarian people.

With Germany's defeat in World War II certain, Bavarian nationalists actively sought support from the Allies for Bavaria's independence.

However, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the division of East and West Germany, and the independence of Bavaria would seriously weaken West Germany's capital against East Germany. The Allies are unlikely to support Bavarian independence, but allow Bavaria more autonomy in West Germany.

In order to resist the forces of the Soviet Union and East Germany, the United States fully supported West Germany after the war, which laid the foundation for the economic take-off of West Germany.

With the transfer of the manufacturing industry, Bavaria has also completed its economic transformation. Historically, Bavaria was located in an inland mountainous area, and its economy was mainly based on agriculture, and its economic development was not as good as that of the north, which is dominated by plains.

With the transfer of German industry after World War II, a large number of high-tech and industrial enterprises chose to transfer to the south, and Bavaria became Germany's emerging industrial center and the most economically developed state.

In the 1990s, East Germany merged with West Germany, and the unified "New Germany" stood on the European territory. However, the joining of East Germany made Germany face the growing gap between the East and the West.

In order to promote the development of East Germany, the ZF developed the economy of the East through financial transfers, policy support, and capital investment. By the time of the 20th anniversary of the reunification of Germany and Germany, about 1.4 trillion euros had poured into the East.

The more honors you have, the more responsibilities you assume. Bavaria, which has the second largest GDP in the country and the third largest per capita GDP, naturally has to shoulder more heavy responsibilities.

However, the high taxation did not bring about corresponding returns. Bavaria received much less federal funding than the East German states. The unreasonable distribution policy in Germany caused dissatisfaction among many Bavarians.

In addition, as the most economically powerful country in the European Union, Germany not only undertakes more important tasks of aiding less developed countries, but also undertakes the important task of helping Greece and other countries with serious debt crises to tide over the difficulties during the European debt crisis.

Seeing the created wealth flowing into "poor places" and "poor countries", Bavarian residents are increasingly dissatisfied.

However, German law stipulates that no region has the right to secede from the Federation, making Bavaria's independent operation almost impossible.

The upsurge in separatist sentiment is more about venting dissatisfaction with government policies and calling for policy reforms than actual actions.

Of course, it cannot be denied that even if the Bavarians do not have the ability to really fight for independence, the basis for them to identify themselves as Germans is "Bavarians first, Germans second".

Bavaria still emphasizes its differences from other regions in Germany. It has distinctive characteristics and is unique among the German states. It has always maintained a sense of pride and pride in the local culture.

How is this similar to the Catalan region of Spain and the Scottish region of the United Kingdom?

Catalonia is located in the northeast of Spain, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and France. It has beautiful scenery and a developed economy. Geographically, it naturally has independent advantages. This is much stronger than Bavaria. At least Catalonia has its own sea outlet. In other words, there is a way to retreat, unlike Bavaria, which does not even have a deep space to retreat in a real fight.

And from a historical point of view, let alone, the historical entanglement between the Catalan region and the Spanish region is much more complicated than that between Bavaria and Germany. Speaking of it, it is really an old lady's foot wrap-it is smelly and long.

But it has to be said that, after all, without this historical entanglement, there would not be such deep antagonism between the two sides.

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