I'm wondering at what point, if ever, the Czechs of the Austro-Hungarian empire could have been Germanized. Were there attempts to do so through language laws? If they had been tried, what likelihood of success would there have been. It seems in OTL that there was plenty of intermarriage going on, based on the German last names that constantly pop up in Czech life today, even after the ethnic cleansing of 1945-46, or for that matter, the Czech last names in Austria today.
Had the Moravians been Germanized first, with them merging with the northeastern and southeastern Sudetens, then the Bohemian Czechs would have been surrounded by German speakers, making their independent language/ethnicity status even tougher.
Such a merged Austro-Czech German speaking people would then have amounted to a clear majority in the Austrian section of the Empire, with intriguing long range possibilities.