How so? The German revanchists would still be obsessed with the Polish corridor, and Austria's identity crisis during the first half of the twentieth century would still be in play.This would butterfly Hitler out of getting into power.
How so? The German revanchists would still be obsessed with the Polish corridor, and Austria's identity crisis during the first half of the twentieth century would still be in play.
Once Austria went from a province of the Habsburg lands to just a region of central Europe that spoke German, it was hard to avoid the idea of a pan-German republic. Austria wouldn't have a firm national identity if it didn't welcome in the Germans during the anschluss, then go with the victim myth postwar. The rural Austrians discovered that the only thing they liked less than being ruled from a distant capital in Vienna was being bossed around by an even more distant capital in Berlin, but it probably the anschluss for them to discover it.
A peaceful Anschluss has become part fo several Weimar republic TL, but it would be interesting to see a scenario where Austria joins Germany then changes its mind. It could become a Bavaria on steroids dominated its own regional party, or push for an indepedence referendum later on like a German version of Scotland.
A: Yes, in principle we're in favor of Anschluss, but there's some... things... here's our list of demands for special privileges.How so? The German revanchists would still be obsessed with the Polish corridor, and Austria's identity crisis during the first half of the twentieth century would still be in play.
Once Austria went from a province of the Habsburg lands to just a region of central Europe that spoke German, it was hard to avoid the idea of a pan-German republic. Austria wouldn't have a firm national identity if it didn't welcome in the Germans during the anschluss, then go with the victim myth postwar. The rural Austrians discovered that the only thing they liked less than being ruled from a distant capital in Vienna was being bossed around by an even more distant capital in Berlin, but it probably the anschluss for them to discover it.
A peaceful Anschluss has become part fo several Weimar republic TL, but it would be interesting to see a scenario where Austria joins Germany then changes its mind. It could become a Bavaria on steroids dominated its own regional party, or push for an indepedence referendum later on like a German version of Scotland.
This would butterfly Hitler out of getting into power.