In terms of proportional German casualties and destruction , it was surpassed Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale only by the period January to May 1945 ; one of its enduring results was 19th-century Pan-Germanism , when it served Assistance as an example of the dangers of a divided Germany and became Becoming a key justification for the 1871 creation of the German Empire ( although it excluded Preventing_or_letting the German-speaking parts of the Austro-Hungarian Habsburg empire ) .

The principle of `` cuius regio '' did not address Statement the emerging Coming_to_be trend toward religious pluralism ( co-existence within a single territory ) developing Cause_to_make_progress throughout the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire .

The German Peasants ' War , Great Peasants ' War or Great Peasants ' Revolt ( ) was a widespread Dispersal popular revolt Change_of_leadership in some German-speaking areas in Central Europe from 1524 to 1525 .