Weird idea: Weimar Germany survives, fascist Austria idea

I was seeing a map in the map thread which made me think, what could fascist Austria realistic have done.

Here I got the idea that Italy and Yugoslavia end up in war with each others, and Austria join on the Italian side (together with other opportunists (Hungary and Bulgaria), as their part of the reward they get most of Slovenia. From there they make the same agreement with Italy about the South Tyrolean German population as Hitler did (relocation). But here the deal is not ignored because of WWII, instead they're resettled in Austrian Slovenia.

Madness maybe, but I think taking a Slovenia from the Yugoslavian corpse following a successful Italian war with it, would be the most likely expansion of a fascist Austria, and a fascist Austria would likely do it best to Germanise such a area.
 

Perkeo

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Unlike most alternate historians, I see nothing weird about Weimar Germany surviving. Yes they exchanged the chancellor more often than once per year, but the Third French Republic and post-WWII Italy had similar rates about their prime ministers and neither of them qualifies as a failed state. Yes there were deep crises, those were either inherited from the predecessor regime or triggered from outside. Yes the political system failed to solve all problems, but in no case it caused them.

As for Austria, I do see a slightly different Dollfuß sieze power and turnign Austria into full facism, but then we have no international superpower on the Facist side. If they are lucky they conquer Slowenia, but I don't see them Germanising it. If that was easy to do, the Habsburgs would have done so, and if they commit too many atrocities the international community will intervene - not necessarily military, but clear enough to make them think twice.
 
WI they split on religious lines with Roman Catholics (Austria, Bavaria, Croatia, etc.) turning fascist?
Meanwhile, Protestant (mostly Lutheran) northern states (Prussia, etc.) remain liberal.
 

Cook

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A couple of obstacles. The first is that the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, imposed on Austria at the end of the First World War, restricted Austria to an army of only 30,000 volunteers, with no heavy artillery, tanks or air force (land-bound Austria was also prohibited from building submarines). Under your scenario, Chancellor Dollfuss must at some stage choose to defy the League of Nations and abrogate the treaty. He must then somehow find the financial wherewithal to expand the army and build up some kind of air force, and at the same time maintain the social contract that kept the peace in the corporate state. And he'd have to deal with the fact that an arms build-up by Austria would result in a similar build-up by Czechoslovakia and Hungary.

Next there is the problem that an Austria harbouring irredentist ambitions poses a very real threat to Italy, and not just in the South Tyrol; an Austria in control of Slovenia poses a direct threat to the Italian port cities of Trieste and Fiume, and the Istrian peninsula. It would be ludicrous for the Italian Fascists to empower a potential enemy in that way.
 
Would about Slovokia? Will we still see Father Tiso?

Well I don't think Austria could take on the Czechs, so probably not. I suppose its possible that a state or a coalition of states could still decide to end Czechoslovakia, but its much less likely with a politically unstable Germany.
 
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