Chapter 2079： Can only be emotions

Bavaria was absent, and the uprising was quickly suppressed. If Bavaria was dissatisfied with the ruler and stood in a different team from other principalities, now even if it has a common enemy, Bavaria does not stand on the same front with the rest of Germany. It's very interesting!

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

In the subsequent Thirty Years’ War of 1618, the southern German state headed by Bavaria stood on the side of Catholicism and met with the northern Protestant camp. The conflict between religions has evolved into a struggle for interests behind each country, and it is divided into two. The fact that Germany is thinking more about the benefits of its own region.

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

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

It stands to reason that such a position should have stood out in history, but it has not formed a powerful country.

An important step was taken in the reunification of Germany in 1867. The North German Confederation was established under the leadership of Prussia. William I became Emperor of Germany and Bismarck was prime minister.

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

Although seemingly independent, the small countries of Bavaria are actually controlled by France. In other words, the four independent countries in the southern part of the German region at that time were actually nothing more than puppet rights controlled by the French Emperor Napoleon III. They were not real at all. independent.

Napoleon III’s life goal was to reproduce the glory of the Napoleonic Empire. He actively launched foreign wars. The German states that were pro-law in nature could not give up, while Bismarck dedicated his life to complete the great cause of German reunification.

One is the ambitious French emperor, and the other is the German "Iron Prime Minister" who is aspiring to reunify Germany. The two powers competed naturally, and the Franco-Prussian War for the hegemony of the European continent broke out between the two.

Napoleon III was full of ambitions. He was full of confidence in winning the Franco-Prussian War. However, the reality is very backbone: After being sung by the new power Prussia and breaking into the nest of Paris, Napoleon III’s ambition was instantly extinguished, and even sparks Nothing left, but was forced to cede land to pay compensation, and lost face in clean.

Not only did the entire South of Germany be returned to its original owners, but Prussia also demanded that Alsace and Lorraine be ceded to Germany, and France would also pay Germany 5 billion francs in compensation.

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

Therefore, it is not difficult to see that Bavaria has been very close to the rest of Germany in history.

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

After that, all German unity rights retained the autonomy of Bavaria.

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

Different from East Germany and West Germany in World War II, as well as from the North and South Federation of the United States, Bavaria has a historically different origin from other parts of Germany from the very beginning. This has become one of the main factors of Bavaria's "German" movement, and it is also a lingering historical gene in Bavaria.

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

Of course, unless Bavaria really unites itself and promotes independence through zheng change, that is another situation, which 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 their ability to hold on is another matter.

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

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

Now, one third of Bavarians tend to be independent. Do they want to express their superiority?

What is superior? Of course it is an economic advantage!

Since the reunification of Germany in 1871, although Bavaria has obtained the greatest autonomy, the Protestantism in the North and the Catholicism in the South are incompatible, making contradictions persist. The two world wars have made the contradictions between the two sides more prominent.

The First World War ended with the defeat of the Allied powers headed by Germany and Austro-Hungary. The defeat of Germany brought the independence of Bavaria to its peak. The defeated Germany faced severe punishment from the Allied powers, and Bavaria was not spared. Bavarian nationalists doubted the wisdom of joining the German Empire at that time.

In 1918, the Austro-Hungarian Empire disintegrated, and Austria became a predominantly German country. Because of the same ethnic and religious beliefs as Austria, Bavaria's desire to join Austria was endless.

At this time, communist ideas also began to sweep across Europe, and Bavaria became independent for a time, and the short-term "Bavarian Soviet Republic" was established.

However, out of fear of communism and the great powers represented by the United Kingdom did not want to overly weaken Germany, the hope of Bavaria's independence was finally dead.

The harsh and punitive clauses after the First World War made the mood of revenge always permeate the sky over Germany, and the great economic crisis in 1929 severely hit Germany.

He became the largest dang in Germany through elections, but it was an exception in Bavaria.

Since the nationalist sentiment in Bavaria after the defeat of Germany in World War I reached its peak, the Bavarian people dang was established in the area to promote Bavarian independence. With the overwhelming support of Germany, the support rate among Bavarian Catholics has been low. Dang from the people of Bavaria.

With the defeat of Germany in World War II set, Bavarian nationalists actively sought allies to support Bavarian independence.

However, the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union led to the division of East and West Germany, and Bavarian independence would severely weaken the capital of West Germany against East Germany. The Allies cannot support Bavarian independence, but allow Bavaria to have more autonomy in West Germany.

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

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

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

In the 1990s, East Germany was merged into West Germany, and a unified "New Germany" stood on the territory of Europe. However, the addition of East Germany made Germany face the growing gap between East and West.

In order to promote the development of the East German region, ZF developed the eastern economy through financial transfers, government policy support, and capital investment. On the 20th anniversary of the reunification of the two Germanys, approximately 1.4 trillion euros of funds poured into the eastern region.

The more honors, the more responsibilities it bears. Bavaria, which has the second largest GDP in the country and the third largest GDP per capita, naturally has to shoulder more important tasks.

However, the high taxes did not return corresponding returns. The state of Bavaria received much less federal funding than the states of East Germany. The unreasonable distribution policy in Germany caused dissatisfaction among many Bavarians.

In addition, as the EU’s most economically powerful country, Germany not only undertakes more of the task of assisting underdeveloped countries, but also takes on the task of helping countries with severe debt crisis such as Greece to tide over the difficulties during the European debt crisis.

Seeing the wealth created flows into "poor places" and "poor countries", the dissatisfaction among the residents of Bavaria is on the rise.

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

The rise in separatist sentiment is more about venting dissatisfaction with the ZF policy and calling for reform of the zheng policy, rather than putting it into actual action.

Of course it cannot be denied that even if the Bavarians are not capable of truly independence, the basis for them to identify themselves as Germans is "Bavarians first, Germans second".

Bavaria still emphasizes the difference between itself and other parts of Germany. It has distinctive characteristics and unique characteristics among the German states, and has always maintained a sense of pride and pride in the local culture.

How similar is this to Catalonia in Spain and Scotland in England?

Catalonia is located in northeastern Spain, bordering the Mediterranean Sea and France. It has beautiful scenery and a developed economy. Geographically, it naturally has an independent advantage. This is much stronger than Bavaria. At least Catalonia has its own outlet to the sea. In other words, there is a way of retreat, unlike Bavaria, it really doesn't even have a deep space to retreat.

From a historical point of view, let alone, the historical entanglement between Catalonia and Spain is much more complicated than that of Bavaria in Germany. It is really an old lady's footwear-smelly and long.

But it must be said that, after all, without this historical entanglement, it would not have caused such a deep antagonism between the two sides.

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