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Old Posted Jan 18, 2014, 1:15 PM
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Originally Posted by Crawford View Post
I don't understand the similarities. Again, these are different countries, always, except under WWII. Germany and Austria are quite different culturally.

And you have it reversed. Prussia didn't dominate Central Europe because Berlin grew; Berlin grew because Prussia dominated Central Europe.
It's clearly a shift of power on the German world, from Vienna to Berlin.
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