Under Ferdinand's butterfly effect, after World War I, Germany's major constituent states broke free of the central government's control, retaining only a nominal unity.
Germany's men of vision had all hoped for the German lands to be unified once more, and countless people had worked tirelessly toward that end. More than a decade had passed, and now, at last, dawn was in sight.
To escape their current predicament, the German states understood that unity was their best choice.
Rather than unleash a meaningless civil war, they might as well turn it into a foreign war and use war to divert their domestic contradictions.
On March 23, 1937, the Kingdom of Prussia announced its restoration. Wilhelm II's eldest son would become the new king, with his coronation planned for June 5.
Everyone knew this was a major concession by Germany's central government. In order to reunify the empire, the ancient system of electing kings would once again return to German soil.
Among the German princes, Austria—the most influential—had been excluded this time.
Of course, even if it had not been excluded, the House of Habsburg would not have joined in this excitement. Germany as it stood was a powder keg.
Everyone was waiting to see the stance of Bulgaria and France. If they did not intervene, German unification would become inevitable.
Sofia
Little Ferdinand urgently convened a royal council. Wilhelm III's restoration had come too suddenly; even the Bulgarian government had not figured out what was going on.
Under normal circumstances, something like this would never be without the British hand behind it. Bulgaria could not afford to take it lightly.
"There are two issues that require our decision: First, should we intervene in Wilhelm III's restoration? Second, what should we do in the face of a unified Germany? From the