Now, the actual Anschluss we know was a power play by Adolf, but I've always wonder just how much support any unification with Germany had among Austrians of the time. Yes, Republic of German-Austria wanted to be part of the German Republic, but after almost two decades, were such sentiments the same?
I guess this is a pretty open-ended topic, but it's something that had been bugging me for years. Was it inevitable that (independent) Austrians would have tried to join Germany until the Nazis made the whole thing taboo, or was there any strong political will among the people to be separate?