Greater Post-WWII Austria

What if Austria went with the whole "First Victim of Nazism" thing and went whole hog with it? Could they try asking Bavaria? Offer to take the Catholic Germans from around the continent and be a bastion against Fascism? Perhaps try to make the Danube the northern border of Austria, allowing the Czechs to take lake, take their own bit from German, and allowing the newly communist Hungarians Burgenland?
 
Hence the quotation marks. There still however is the issue of how the Germans assassinated their leaders before the Anchluss and had invaded because the President of Austria was holding a referendum on whether or not to join Germany and the Nazis didn't want them to be able to publlicly say no.
 
>Perhaps try to make the Danube the northern border of Austria,

Even the Czechs were not that interested in acquiring the 1/3 or so of Austria which is situated north of the Danube. There were hardly Czechs there, so Czechoslovakia would have to entirely depopulate 1/3 of Austrian territory and find even more Czechs to settle there, or put up with almost exclusively German-speaking areas again.

>allowing the Czechs to take lake, take their own bit from German, and allowing the newly communist Hungarians Burgenland?

So you would have Austria give up Waldviertel and Weinviertel to the Czechs, Burgenland to Hungary, and then take in people who have absolutely no attachment to Austria except speaking (roughly) the same language? And where the memory of being under Austria consists of "Sendlinger Mordweihnacht"?

OTOH you could describe it as Bavaria absorbing a strongly reduced rump Austria. Not the other way around.

The only reason any post-war Austrian government would accept this deal if the one proposing it have parked a few tanks in the Hofburg.
 
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