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Alright, so I was looking at a map earlier, and suddenly I got a fabulous idea! Remember those occupation zones in Germany and Austria after World War II? Well, the American, French, and British zones were merged to create the West German state, and the occupation zones left were abandoned, allowing Austria to become it's own, seperate, sovereign state. Meanwhile, Germany was divided between the west and the USSR. So...what if the allies decided to throw it all together and make one, big, mega-West Germany? No doubt the Austrians would have mostly opposed it. But what could have possessed the allied leaders to make this merger? Plausibility check? I mean, the occupation zones basically ignored the old German-Austrian border anyways...
Map for effect.

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