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Wilhelm Gause: Emperor Franz Joseph visiting Bismarck 1889, drawing, 1908

After the process of German unification led to the “small German solution” in 1871, both sides were making efforts towards rapprochement.

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    To join or not to join? Austria and the process of German unification

    In response to the question of national unification, many Germans considered that the logical path was for the German Confederation to be made into a federal state and then into a German nation-state. Nevertheless, the question of the role to be played by the Habsburg Monarchy was a major problem.