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Were it not for the death of something like 5 million or more men during the war I would agree with you about regression to the mean, but if you add up all the deaths and then add in the siphoning off of the best remaining minds and their families, plus major emigration after the war it adds up...

Well you're missing out on a bunch of biological exposure. They say C-section kids are more prone to all sorts of issues due to missing out on the bacteria in the mother's birth canal that they get during the birth process. Not sure animal studies are a great way to tell given that the human...

BTW I can't believe I forgot a critical issue: Brain Drain! The Allies took the best scientists and their families to other countries and way from Germany where they effectively were removed from the gene pool. Not only that, but millions left Germany when they could after the war to get away...

Once you get into the artificial stuff you hit all sorts of severely negative consequences to child development.

I'd argue the mass death of German men and the prostituting of German women to the Allied armies that caused the issues. Kind of hard to birth a new generation when the best men are dead and most the survivors are mostly those guys who weren't fit for military service or older guys (sperm...

Chemicals, steel, mechanical engineering: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrialization_in_Germany#Leading_industries https://www.jstor.org/stable/231441 The chemical industry in particular was a huge thing since it integrated science, research, production, etc. It was the original 'big...

They had their own weird model based more on craft manufacturing of luxury goods. Britain was more mass manufacturing, but haphazardly.

Sure, but it took the finances gained from reparations from France and a united economic unit in central Europe to actually get the German economy rolling. The German government centralized the financing of industrialization to avoid the problems of British style 'free market' industralization...

France was a rival, Prussia was a smaller, further away, much less threatening kingdom. Compare that with Germany, which when formed produced about half the steel Britain did in 1880. By 1910 Germany produced double the steel of Britain. That should give you an idea of why Prussia was...

Basically those territories. Germany and the Habsburgs were economically highly integrated and both were vulnerable to each other in the event of war, so their alliance was largely geographically enforced. So were Prussia and Britain. And Prussia and Russia. European diplomacy was like...

Italy and France had a lot of territorial disputes. The French and Habsburgs were traditional allies because generally speaking they had little conflicting interests and were both anti-Prussia, but the creation of Germany changed everything as did the Franco-Russian relationship