Comments by "Jim Taylor" (@jimtaylor294) on "The Hossbach Memorandum PROVES Hitler Wanted to Wage a War of Aggression" video.

Accepting Austria would've meant its non-germanic territories, which Bismarck knew were culturally incompatable & irreconcilable with the concept of a unified pan-german state. He also predicted that a major war would be started by "some damned foolish thing in the balkans", as well as the Kaiser's fall from power.
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^ Not really, as the rest of Germany had a Catholic demographic anyway. It was Austria's non-German possessions that Bismarck didn't want. (as he [correctly as it turned out] concluded that it would only stack up problems for the future)
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^ I fail to see your point. The Kaiserreich had both catholic & protestant Germans as was, a few Austrians wouldn't have made much of a difference. Bismarck was against having sizable groups of non-Germans in the realm, such as Hungarians, Slovaks & Slavs. (and history proved him right in this, as Austro-Hungary's demographic complexity was its ultimate undoing) As such only if Austria had given up its southern territories, would it have been accepted. This is not difficult.
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Possibly, but irrelevant, as the main point was his adversion to Austria's vast Non-German subject demographic, a far larger problem than mere religion. Keeping Austria out mooted the problem, thus it was so. Germany also still had a large catholic demographic by WWI, so if Bismarck did disfavour them it wasn't to much long term effect.
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"Ve didn't start et!" "Yes you did you invaded Poland!"
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... and then not selective enough, ironically.
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@dixztube ...and Lindybeige's, and David Fletcher's, and...
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@alanpennie8013 I know, as I stated basically that. He also had cultural reasons though, as he knew Austria's possessions had little to no commonality with Germany proper.
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