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The part of the former Prussia that was in West Germany was not historically Prussia and had only lately become part of Prussia, people there did not identify as Prussians. Prussia may formally no longer be called that, but it very much still exists. Our laws, police force, military, culture is totally Prussian.
There are still sizeable chunks of former Prussian counties in Germany, as you can see here. So it isn't as if the Prussians suddenly vanished. They simply turned into Germans when Prussia ceased to exist. Take myself, for example: all my grandparents were born in Prussian provinces before WWII, so by ancestry I belong to the Prussian people, too.
First, I cannot speak for people who self-identify as Prussian, and by doing so are recalling either the Kingdom of Prussia in the days of Otto von Bismarck and the Wilhelms, Friedrich II and his famous battles against Austrians, Russians, and the French; or Ducal Prussia from which Brandenburg ascended into kingship in the reign of Friedrich III.
Prussia was dissolved due to the spoils of war following the conclusion and settlement of WW2 between the Allies and the USSR in the East. During WW1, what was known as Prussia was made up of lands on the Baltic Sea, known as East Prussia and then West Prussia was later annexed during the final partition of Poland between Austria, Russia and ...
Prussia wasnt integrated. It isnt german anymore. While Prussian values still to exist (being on time, etc (yes these were prussian values)), the State of Prussia doesnt. And no, it isnt forgotten. Prussia still is the Country that did 99% of the work in german unification, and with Prussia came the militarism that caused 2 world wars. tl:dr
So you still had Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, etc. existing, but they were now part of a larger German state. After WWII the allies identified Prussia, which had a reputation as being very militaristic and full of warmongers, as the source of Germany's militarism and thus they wanted to dissolve the state of Prussia.
Upon the end of World War 2, the Kingdom of Prussia (called "The Free State of Prussia" after World War 1) within Germany was dissolved by the allied powers, as the historical quality of Prussianism (unquestioned obedience to authority, and qualities associated with it) was thought to be a primary cause of World War 2's beginning and by ...
Prussia incorporated most of northern Germany between 1866 and 1945. The destruction of Prussia was the most effective thing the Allies did, people identify with their modern state more than with prussia. If we are talking about old East and West Prussia, the people that remember living there are at least 85, most are dead.
The actual core of Prussia was always in Brandenburg, so Berlin became capital of Germany. Since the end of the war, no part of the historic region called Prussia remains in Germany and the core region of Prussia just uses the older name Brandenburg. So coming back to your question: Prussia was very militaristic and Germans today are not.
So I'm currently in a game where I've went Poland > PLC > Prussia. I've culture shifted to prussian after eating the teutons, went protestant, and at admin tech 10 took both decisions (form PLC and Reform into Prussia) in basically the same day. Now, everytime I get a new ruler, I'm still getting the "The Sejm veto all your policies" event.