Hapsburg restoration

Let us say that the Chancellor had the courage to move and restored Otto to the throne, surving the assassination attempt. Since this would happen much earlier otto and the Fatherland front would have a chance to build an opposition to Hitler. This would mean that Austria would join with Czechoslovkia in an alliance aimed at preventing Hitler from being able to attack eith country. It appears that President Benes was willing to accept Otto on the throne if it would be a means of defeating Hitler. Otto and Chancellor Dolfuss were willing to do whatever it would take to maintain Austria's Independence. If that meant Austrian soldiers fight Germans then so be it. This might have been enough to allow the German military to act against Hitler or for the French to get up the nerve to moblize and move into the Rhineland.
 
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Let me look at another possibility. Crown Prince Rupphert had successfully overthrown the Sovet government of Bavaria in 1919 and after a timeto reorganize he in the mid 1920's turns a sympathic eye at the plight of the Hapsburgs. Rupphert deceides in 1928 to aid a restoration effort in Austria. there has been a growing clash between the left and the right in Austria and Ruppherts aid tilts the balance in favor of the conservatives.
The young Archduke Otto is offer the throne as a result.
 
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