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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