... insertion of Austria into the German national state would result in the breakdown of the Habsburg monarchy, which was not realistic. Furthermore, the Austrian Empire was totally against the unification of Germany and Italy, because in the case of the latter it would have to give up territories which ... was: a Greater nation-state (groβdeutsch) or a smaller German nation-state (kleindeutsch). The former would include German states of the Habsburg Empire, whereas the latter would be composed of state's belonging to the German Confederation. Yet the answer to a Greater Germany depended a...

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