The French occupation dissolved Germany’s inherited political structures.

Evidence

Although Germany had not been a unified entity prior to the French invasion, the French demolished the ecclesiastical states left over from the Holy Roman Empire and reorganized the land into a manageable number of middle-sized states under French protection. — Leonard S. Newman and Ralph Erber (eds.), Understanding Genocide, 912

Categorization

• XREF: Historical parallel to conquest-driven identity restructuring elsewhere in the reader’s empires-and-nations notes. — connects to: Economic growth replaced history as Germany’s organizing axis of time after 1945. — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 557

Broader Connections

• Economic growth replaced history as Germany’s organizing axis of time after 1945. #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 557