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There are historians who try to cast Prussia as something it wasn't, and who eagerly white-wash France, but that has never been my approach. If anything, my essential thesis here is that in terms of Modernity's failings, Germany was initially more or less a victim of France-- not the other way...

But it certainly was! Here, too, we see the centralist "state-power over all" legacy at work. We can also point to the way that local languages and dialect were literally beaten out of schoolchildren, because to be a good Frenchman, one must speak Parisian French and obey the Parisian government...

"Nazism as some sort of super-Prussianism or hardcore Kaiserreichism" isn't what I was arguing, although I see that I have been unclear. ( I sometimes forget that my established ideas aren't actually known to everyone reading what I write at any given moment. :p ) My view is that they are...

The root cause is not that they were the most powerful states. Having power is why they could throw their weight around so much, but that applied to other powers as well, at various points. (England, but also the Holy Roman Empire at times, as well as Poland at one point; not to mention that...