1. Why Did Germany Fail To Unite Before 1860?
Unification was impossible to establish as long as an Austrian controlled Bund existed, this was very unlikely to change as the members of the Bund were not prepared or supportive at all of trading autonomy for unification; they wanted to retain their armies, tax raising rights and power of a leadership role which carries connotations with higher authority and most significantly, respect, they did not want to lose this status, thus ensuring that unification was not going to succeed, it ensured that movement was: "too embryonic to succeed". ... There was a distinctive lack of enthusiasm,...
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