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Would have been best for Prussia to get destroyed in the Seven Years' War, eh? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_House_of_Brandenburg

What would be the casus belli?

They'd need an Anglo-Russo-American coalition to go down, as in WWII. France won't be capable of fighting them due to its loss of Briey and Longwy as a result of its WWI defeat in this TL.

Would Germany actually be in a position to lose another World War if it won the first one, though?

The Silesian Uprisings were primarily in the eastern part of Upper Silesia, IIRC. Largely in the part that was given to Poland after the end of WWI in real life. BTW, any chance of a reformed and liberalized Imperial Germany that does not lose a World War ever allowing Poznan Province and...

A fusion Polish-German identity would be interesting. It developed in Upper Silesia to some extent, IIRC. You mean in a spiritual sense? As in, that Poland would be spiritually and culturally incomplete without these territories?

BTW, @ATP, economically, just how vital was Poznan for Poland?

Yeah, it's quite interesting that Poles were even more hostile towards the Prussians than they were towards the Russians. And Yes, Germans and Prussians do appear to have been more legalistic relative to the Russians.

When exactly did Prussians beat Polish children?

Would the German Army have viewed home rule in Posen as a threat due to Posen's strategic location?

@sillygoose Do you know if implementing home rule for places such as Posen, Alsace-Lorraine, et cetera would have been something that a politically dominant German SPD would have actually been interested in? Similar to the Irish Home Rule movement in Britain in the pre-WWI era, which of course...

FWIW, in real life, Hanover got de facto Home Rule the end of World War II when a separate (West) German federal unit in the form of Lower Saxony was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony

The butterflies from this might mean no Nazi rise to power in Germany. BTW, Hanover would be another good candidate for Home Rule in Imperial German times since they frequently voted for autonomist and/or regionalist candidates:

What if Imperial Germany passes Home Rule for both Alsace-Lorraine and Posen Province and then successfully implements it in both of these places? By "Home Rule", I mean something similar to what Northern Ireland and/or Scotland have nowadays. In other words, huge autonomy. How much goodwill...