WI: Germany goes for Slovenia instead of Danzig

As the title says. What if Germany decides to go on annexing Slovenia, under the pretext of protecting the german minority or something like this.
 

yourworstnightmare

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As the title says. What if Germany decides to go on annexing Slovenia, under the pretext of protecting the german minority or something like this.
Slovenia had less emotional impact on Germany than Danzig. Danzig was something Hitler could really get people excited about, Poland was a nation Hitler wanted to destroy, while he didn't really care one way or another about Yugoslavia.
 

Pomphis

Banned
Completely ASB. Danzig was german till 1919. About 90% of the population were germans. The NSDAP had won the local election in 1933. The weimar republic was not willing to accept the eastern borders as final (no "east locarno"). Slovakia OTOH was a poor part of austria-hungary nobody in germany was interested in.
 

Pomphis

Banned
Oops. I just noticed you said "slovenia". The same, only maybe even more so. Youslavia was somewhat pro-german at the time, and italy would have been extremely unhappy.
 
Not enough Germans. Perhaps some of the border areas containing Germans in Lower Styria could be annexed later during the war with Yugoslavia. There is a pocket of Germans forming a majority in the Gottschee area. Lacking a land connection with other German (unlike Danzig) the best this area could hope for was either repatriation back to Germany or maybe formation of an exclave.
 
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