I just happened to read (in a travel guidebook) about how Southern Carinthia including Klagenfurt, would likely have been lost to Yugoslavia after WW1, if America had not intervened and a plebiscite been held. There was a Yugoslav military occupation of the area, in anticipation of taking over. In the event of course they had to withdraw, it stayed Austrian, enough of the Slovene minority apparently even voted for that. There are not that many Slovenes left in the region today. But what if the US had not intervened, and Yugoslavia gets it with no vote, or the vote went the other way? Carinthia is well known as being one of the most right-wing/nationalist parts of Austria (more than the Tyrol perhaps, which basically accepted the new Brenner frontier didn't it?). Carinthia is also now anyway (don't know what it was like in the 1920s), one of the wealthiest regions of Austria.
Furthermore, in the Tyrol, AFAIK there was never any danger of Austria losing Innsbruck, the Land capital and obviously a rather important city in various ways. Wouldn't Austria likely have been more pissed off at losing the important city and Carinthian capital of Klagenfurt, than they were about losing any cities in South Tyrol? I could imagine quite a lot of bitterness from Austria if this area had been lost. Would they perhaps even have tried to regain it by force? And of course Hitler was terribly anti-Slav. Since he was Austrian (albeit from the other end of Austria), presumably he'd have had something to say about the loss if it had happened, and had persisted until the Anschluss occured.
Furthermore, in the Tyrol, AFAIK there was never any danger of Austria losing Innsbruck, the Land capital and obviously a rather important city in various ways. Wouldn't Austria likely have been more pissed off at losing the important city and Carinthian capital of Klagenfurt, than they were about losing any cities in South Tyrol? I could imagine quite a lot of bitterness from Austria if this area had been lost. Would they perhaps even have tried to regain it by force? And of course Hitler was terribly anti-Slav. Since he was Austrian (albeit from the other end of Austria), presumably he'd have had something to say about the loss if it had happened, and had persisted until the Anschluss occured.
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