WI: Engelbert Dollfuss not assassinated?

Well Mussolini would support Austria over Germany if Hitler tried anything and would be seen as a keep of the peace. The fascist camp might split between the Mussolini led branch and the disgraced Nazi branch.
 

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I’d expect the Corporate State to be much stronger and more effective at resisting German efforts to push for an Anschluss. Dollfuss at least looked and knew how to play the part of a fascist hard man; Schuschnigg had more of the bearing of Neville Chamberlain about him than that of a dictator.

Hitler would never have been able to browbeat Dollfuss like he did Schuschnigg, and Dollfuss would never have been so foolish as to visit Hitler at Berchtesgaden.
 
Well it'll put a nice big split named Austria in the mini-internationale that Hitler and Mussolini have made as Nazi Germany is largely disgraced and basically kicked out of the camp. Britain and France quietly rejoice and if a war breaks out later then Italy may not be in on the African game without German support.
 
Well it'll put a nice big split named Austria in the mini-internationale that Hitler and Mussolini have made as Nazi Germany is largely disgraced and basically kicked out of the camp. Britain and France quietly rejoice and if a war breaks out later then Italy may not be in on the African game without German support.

But Mussolini's whole motives were creating a New Roman Empire. He is still going to try conquering Ethiopia to do that. Unless of course you mean the North African front in WW2 than you are mistaken. There will not be a WW2 if Hitler has been disgraced like this and made to look like an aggressor on the world stage.
 
But Mussolini's whole motives were creating a New Roman Empire. He is still going to try conquering Ethiopia to do that. Unless of course you mean the North African front in WW2 than you are mistaken. There will not be a WW2 if Hitler has been disgraced like this and made to look like an aggressor on the world stage.

Uh, I do mean the African front of the war, the Allies might even quietly allow the attack on Abyssinia if it means getting Mussolini as someone who will work against Hitler, Dolfuss won't willingly antagonize Hitler, but he'll look for someone he can buddy up with, and events will likely force him towards Mussolini and possibly the Allies.
 
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