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by krzyk 1794 days ago
OK, so which West countries had plantations? Did Germany have them? Yeah, first ones in 1884 and lost all of them in 1914. And it was most industrialized country.
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Unification into the German Empire didn't happen until 1871. The parts that were industrialized were part of France. Germany itself didn't undergo a massive industrialization until a century after Britain.