If Anschluss doesn't happen, how does this affect Hitler's timetable?

[cincpac overboard]

Although the Anschluss was definitely a diplomatic coup for Hitler and a prestige boost, does it really materially affect his preparations for war? I've never read anything to suggest that Austria provided an indispensable source of manpower or industrial capacity for Germany's war effort. Between Hitler and Stalin, Poland will still fall without Austria's participation. Without the Anschluss Czechoslovakia likely remains free, so France and Britain have less warning of Hitler's true ambitions before he makes his move, resulting in lower military readiness.

 

[RamscoopRaider]

It does effect things. He needed Austria's gold and foreign currency reserves to keep importing the raw materials needed for his military buildup, as Germany had run down her own reserves to almost nothing over the past years

Without Munich Stalin won't agree to partition Poland, that happened because Munich convinced him the British and French were spineless and would not stand up to Hitler, before that he was quite prepared to fight Hitler

 

[Anarch King of Dipsodes]

The Anschluss greatly enhanced Hitler's standing with the German people.

It also had the effect of outflanking Czechoslovakia's defenses. The German-Czech border is mountainous, and the Czechs had fortified it. But the border to the south with Austria was wide open. This had significant influence on the Munich conference, because it seemed that Czechoslovakia was now defenseless.

 

[cincpac overboard]

So without diplomatically acquiring Austria is Hitler's next move to arrange a putsch in Vienna? The Austrian branch of the Nazis were banned in 1933, but were there crypto-Nazis in the Austrian military willing to rebel, provided they had clandestine help?