WI: German Austria allowed to unite with Germany

BlondieBC

Banned
Why did the Treaty of Versailles prevent this? Was it just out of spite? It seems hard to believe adding this small nation would make Germany significantly more dangerous.

Geopolitics. If you actually had ethnic self determination, then Germany grows larger after WW1. You basically strip Lorraine and probably Posen from imperial Germany but add Austria, the Sudetenland, possibly a bit of OTL Romania, possibly part of Slovenia, and Tyrol. Germany ends WW1 more powerful than she entered the war.
 

BigBlueBox

Banned
Why did the Treaty of Versailles prevent this? Was it just out of spite? It seems hard to believe adding this small nation would make Germany significantly more dangerous.
Czechoslovakia would be completely indefensible against Greater Germany, and Italy wouldn’t want to border a Greater Germany with irredentist claims on South Tyrol.
 
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