Kaiser Wilhelm II stood before his eldest son and heir, along with his grandson. Three generations of German royalty gathered, staring at the map laid out before them.
"The Greater German Reich."
Wilhelm said… His voice was old, haunting, and yet still filled with the pride and glory an emperor was supposed to embody.
Crown Prince Wilhelm and his son, Wilhelm, stared at the map before them. Since the unification of Germany in 1871, the Empire had been separated from much of its historical territory.
Calling it a unified Germany was true only to such an extent. And in the years since the Great War, Bruno and the Kaiser had worked subtly to restore the maps to their natural order.
"The annexation of the Archduchy of Austria, the Bohemian Marches, the Rhine Princely States, the Alemannic Cantons, and the Baltic March-Frontiers had not been the conquest of foreign nations, but the restoration of older Germanic polities that Westphalia had once carved away by treaty."
