Did Austria want the Anschluss? (Short Animated Documentary)
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Did Austria and Austrians actually want to join Germany in 1938? Was it a forceable annexation or was there a popular groundswell to join Germany? Turns out many wanted it, just that the current leadership was a bit off putting.
Sources:
Hermann Neubacher and the Austrian Anschluss Movement, 1918-1940 by Harry R. Ritter in: Central European History, Vol. 8, No.4 (1975)
German Imperialism and Austria, 1939 by Maurice Williams in: Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 14, No. 1 (1979)
The Short- and Long-Term Effects of the Authoritarian Regime and of Nazism in Austria: The Burden of a ‘Second Dictatorship’ in: Historical Social Research, No. 28 (2016) by Gerhard Botz.
You could also add, that the Germans where prepared to fight when they invaded Austria. But they where actually cheered upon und greeted by the masses, to such an extent that hitler himself drove into Vienna and held a speech to the people
The Austrians loved the Germans! And they do today!
@@vomm The Austrians are German. They just aren't allowed to unify with Germany because that would be too op
@@vomm Actually we hate them ( some in a joking way, some not)
No, we hate Germany. Race isnt a very healthy reason to annex a mixed-culture country out of nowhere. And any austrian "völkisch/deutschnational" moron today who wants to be annexed by germany should be charged for high treason.
@@menschgebliebenergossenpar9213 Much like how race isn't a good reason to annex a mixed-culture country, nationality isn't a good reason to hate the citizens of another mixed-culture country.
It must have been really scary to be a Czech looking at the European map after the Anschluss.
@Sliver Also true!
They didn't have Pacman games back then - fortunately!
The Slovaks were not to happy either, the western border of Czechoslovakia was Austrian German speaking lands of Böhmen und Mähren.
@@justinboroughs5974 1st what is a Chech? 2nd Martial law was declared cuz SdP tried to overthrow the czech government 3rd violence u saw was probably from 1945 in 1938 it was mostly germans attacking czechs
Me. Dicktator... don't act like you don't know what I meant. Why don't you ask voice text what Chech is.
It's too late to dispute your official historical narrative. All I have to say is I research every side of every story, fact or fiction and I add up the dots. Oh yeah and I have video evidence of CZECH violence against innocent minorities in 1938. Bad but not compatible to Polish attrocities way before the invasion.
None of this would have happened if Germany had just picked the 'Oppose Hitler' focus.
Are you familiar with one event, which do, in fact, the same thing, but to neutral (monarchical) or democratic Germany after allying with Austria?)
PS. Nice joke, you made my day!
Hoi 4 comments incoming in 3,2,1…
It really unsettles my schnuff that the Oppose Hitler focus doesn't immediately send the UK the event to refuse the Sudetenland. This was the original flashpoint the Oster conspiracists planned to act upon, but their communications to the British fell on death ears.
But what if they didn't have the DLC?
they declare war on poland in 1936 to bypass rhineland and declare on austria in 37 with less than 40% world tension
So Italy betrayed Austria?
I think everybody saw that coming.
More like wasn't able to stop Hitler
@@jerzykrzeminski7692 It is still a betray tho
@@jerzykrzeminski7692 i think the allies would have helped them
@@haraldhey9210 Framing a complex geopolitical situation in one pejorative word isn't a wise, informed approach. Over-simplification at best.
@@timteichmann6830 If my memory serves, it wasnt an alliance but just Italy considered Austria within its sphere of influence and Schuster was fine with such arrangement.
*Austrian school of arts sweats nervously*
lol i wonder if Adolf ever did something about that
@@mightyelf2660 Well as some Historian wrote , he actually didn't do something to the school or the teaching stuff after the anschluss .
Fun fact. My gym is exactly across the street from that very school
@@gwimmer98 oida musst du echt auf youtube damit angeben, dass du zum john harris gehst? 😂
BaHaMaN there was however book burnings and art destruction(degenerate art) and art looting.
*some chap with a funny mustache*
Ah, a man of culture.
*_Blitzkrieg intensifies_*
charlie chaplin?
And an Austrian himself by the way.
He very much was.
@Aggro Traveler’s Bucket List Damn.
Short answer: yes
Long answer: yes, but more nuanced
Nice black sun
PotatoAndSickle Definitely makes this chap seem like a wonderful person, yeh?
@@luhanksk9221 depends who your asking lol
The last part of the video is just the opinion of the video maker and not of real historians.
While the idea of the "Anschluss" was pretty widespread immediately after WW1, it changed after people realized that such a small state could indeed survive economically on its own. After Schuschnigg's speech "bis in den tod! Rot-weiß-rot! Österreich!" (until death! Red-white-red! Austria!), it was clear, that most Austrians would vote for an independant Austria. The mood in the public was without doubt pro-Austrian, people were running on the streets, shouting pro-Austrian paroles and producing pro-Austrian graffiti.
According to estimates from that time, the majority would have voted for an independent Austria.
This changed after the seizure of power by the Nazis, the flood of pro-German propaganda and the arrests and assassinations of opponents.
@@Leo-uu8du 65%
My grandmother was at Heldenplatz directly after the Nazis went into Austria and Hitler gave his speech there. Nobody knew what was to come, but they certainly wanted all to be a part of it. Surely there were a lot more people who opposed the Anschluss than the referendum would suggest. But in general, people were positively thrilled.
Well, it's a bit difficult to vote "no" on a referendum, when a man with a gun is standing right next to you. Also, many people who did have the guts to vote "no" were arrested the very next day.
@@GeraltofRivia22 what
99% of Austrians and 99% of Germans voted for unification in the plebiscite. Also, very few Austrians liked the dictator Schuschnigg.
LOL nobody in Austria knew what was to come? How come my Austrian grandfather knew "what was to come?" That's why he had the foresight to flee in September of 1937; my mother in October 1937 and my grandmother and aunt in February of 1938, 2 weeks before the Germans and Austrian Nazis took over. True he was Jewish therefore he knew perfectly well what was to happen.
No one will know the percentage of Austrians who would have voted for Unification because Hitler stopped the Referundum by invading. According to Hitler 99% of Austrians voted for Unification. To make it look legitimate he admitted that the Nazis only lost in one small village!! LOL. Some say it could have been as high as 40%?
Georgia: when your main export is natural gas and Stalin.
It's actually copper ore and Stalin
And sumo wrestlers. Don't forget the sumo wrestlers - or else!
Azerbaijan and the lands surrounding the Caspian sea have natural gas, I believe
hey man give some respect to khatchapuri (food) and cha cha (really strong liquor like we talking branded ones with 75-80% alc and homemade ones with 90-95%alc
And Erdogan
Fun fact: when the sound of music was being filmed the city of Salzburg prohibited the movie from hanging the nazi swastika off buildings; the director then threatened to instead show newsreel clips of the city of Salzburg enthusiastically welcoming Hitler. Salzburg granted permission the next day.
That is actually a fun fact
Petty hostage. Sehr gut.
The greatest trick the Austrians ever pulled was convincing the world that Hitler was a German, and Beethoven an Austrian.
Hitler's hometown was literally on the border of Austria and Germany tbf
The Austrians are ethnically, just not politically, German. 🇦🇹🇩🇪
@@valerietaylor9615TBF considering how Germany treated East Germany when they unified do you really want to unify with them
haha that second option though.
*Shoot me*
@Anti-Federalist 1776 what
@Anti-Federalist 1776 99% of 99% is the most bullshit referendum result ever. It happened under SS supervison in non-secret ballots under NSDAP rule.
I can buy that a simple mayority wanted it, or a plurality of people, but bear in mind most of the pro-unification people were from the SDAPÖ (Social Democratic Worker's party of Austria, modern SPÖ) who where very much opposed to the NSDAP. Those results are as bullshit as it gets.
@@fantasticfox175it is like our presidential election in Egypt 🇪🇬 last time 4 Candidates have been arrested
That sounds just like the option for me
@@truedarklander Kinda like the covid numbers.
Austria wasn’t in a good position at the time of the Anschluss (borderline civil war) which would probably increase support for Anschluss
Actually there was a civil war in 1934... And yes you are right. It made the socialists sympathy with the nazis because they also claimed to be socialists but just national and not traditional international. The socialists hated the Christian conservatives for enabling the parliament and dismantling their armed forces what caused the Civil War. The conservatives tried to imitade the nazi spirit because they thought Hitler would be pleased. After 1938 they all met each other in concentration camps...
It would have helped to mention that there was a vote in the austrian parliament in 1919 just before the versailles treaty. In which all (!) parties voted for unification in a greater germany. Not only "pro anschluss parties", whatever that might mean, but even the "unpatriotic" communists voted for this matter by majority.
Where can I find this document? How is it called?
And Austrians used to call themselves until 1946 German. They just started the Austrian identity to avoid any Nazi implications. "Austria" had the most Nazis per capita of the whole 3rs Reich, this tells a loz
after ww1 nobody thought that the little state of austria could surive, afterwards the pro anschluss team shrinked from year to year.....
@@CRP17 and? today we have a stronger national identitiy than germans.
@@christian9125abd Thanks to you giving up the German identity. I can't imagine it to be same, if it was for you to continue to have affiliations to either of two Germanys/Germanies/(?)
You could do the Munich agreement next
You mean the Munich collusion where Germany and Poland tore up Czechoslovakia with the support of Great Britain, France and Italy, but somehow it's the Soviet Union's fault for "starting WWII" after signing a non-aggression pact (which by definition is never signed by allies) where Western Belarus and Western Ukraine were rightfully returned to their corresponding republics after Poland stole those lands in the early 1920s by trying to reinstate its pathetic empire?
That Munich agreement?
@@SerpMolot Yes that one, you forgot to add Hungary to the list of countries that got something out of it.
Literally no one blames the Soviet Union for starting the second world war.
@@Superbassi0 lol well I mean they did play a part but it was Germany fault for the most part.
@@SerpMolot What do the Soviets have to do with Munich? That one is totally on the Allies. I do take note Soviets offered Czechoslovakia help, on conditions.
And stop acting like Soviets were returning Belorussian and Ukrainian republics. They were reconstructing their own empire.
I like how Austria spent pretty much all of its history after becoming independent in the cold war convincing the entire world they they were the first victims of Nazi expansion rather than the first collaborators.
War crimes committed by both sides.
USSR invaded Poland but they still were part of allies.
Britain committed far worse crimes against humanity in India and africa but Germany is still the bad guy.
US nearly wiped out the natives of Americas and still conducting a fake war on Terror where they arm ISIS and Al Qaeda to topple foreign governments and of course helping Saudi Arabia conducting genocide in Yemen
France still looting Western Africa as they destroyed Libya and is fighting fake war in Sahel where they arm rebels and intervene to protect against Terrorists.
World is not black and White.
Btw US stole nazi technologies after WW2 and also gave asylum to nazi scientists and engineers.
Also transported some of them to Iran who trained Savak of Iran.
@@SuperSanic.. you really gonna try and both sides the fucking nazis at me? I'm not gonna defend the shit American or any of the allies did, but this is pure whataboutism and its irrelevant to what I was talking about. so please Mr. "JKF was killed by Israel" go find another comment to be shity under
@@kazmark_gl8652 we are the first victim of germany, but not of nazis, just of germany. if this was no war, than the war with the allies also never happened, as there was also no declaration of war, the only difference is that we austrians did not fought the germans, as without any help from italy or the allies we could not win
@@christian9125abd you were Germany and no discussions about that until 1946.
And the Austrian Germans happily fought in the Wehrmacht and SS. Collaborators doesn’t really cut it.
Until after WW2, people in Austria didn't call themselves Austrians, but Germans, much like someone from Bavaria or Saxony would call themselves German today.
Yes, because they used to be part of the Holy Roman Empire, before Francis II dissolved it.
@@kysa3535 Who would hate Canada? D:
It's interesting because it demonstrates a unified identity among all of the low countries which would later form the inspiration for the 80 years war.
The Low Country identity described by the document is far wider than what we would nowadays consider the Low Countries (Benelux), though.
Prins van Oranje You are all Germanic lol
Prins van Oranje
Dutch people are not Germanic. The people in the eastern Dutch province ‘Friesland’ on the border with Germany are Germanic peoples. The rest not
"This just demonstrates..."
Why you should never trust Italy?
I actually wonder how much is it in peoples subconcios that Italy is not to be trusted as an ally?
Welp italy was betrayed far too much by austrians, so i think its karma
These are just memes, each nations want to do own interests... and Austria was not allied with Italy, so why would Italy have to delcare war at Germany to defend Austria (which, by the way, hated Italy) ?
Stop seeing diplomacy between nations as a football fan, alliances are constantly changing, and two allied countries are not friends, they simply have common interests
@@francescofulminis Mussolini explicitly promised to defend Austria against any attempts by Germany to annex it. When Germany tried doing just this, Italy refused to do anything. That's a pretty clear-cut case of betrayal.
@@EndOfSmallSanctuary97 Mussolini couldn't oppose to Hitler. And anyway, Hitler annexted Austria but he promised to Mussolini that he would never invaded Italy to annext Südtirol, Trentino and Veneto. 5 years later, after italian surrender, Hitler invaded Italy (1943). So who is the traitor?
Germany: *invades 2 of its neighbours*
Britain: Peace in our time
Germany: Invades Poland
Britain: hey I guess we're at war but im not gonna help Poland at all
USSR: Invades Poland top
Britain amd France: The aliance with Polanski was a one Ticket affair.
UK and France only mattered themselves, they declared war on Germany not because Hitler was bad but because he would've invaded them
More like
1933- Hitler Purchase 5000 TANKS
England and France: Naaaah he wrote here "Lawn mower" , we should probably let him.
@Jonathan Williams Oooops, It's 1933, thanks for the heads up
@King Victor Emanuele I read that quite interested and smiled at the last two words there lol. Everything was professional until your viewpoint seeped out (not that I even disagree with it) with raging fury.
Many report that German troops went into Austria. Few report that Austrian troops equally went into Germany, as a sign of solidarity. The support for unification was incredibly strong - and nobody at that point knew what would happen in terms of there being a WW2.
never heard of this - provide a citation of support please to explain thanks
@@Losangelesharveythe only source i know is of an Military Officer exchange between Austria and Germany which was forced upon the Austrians durring the Berchtesgarden negotiations.
Reference to that would be "Requiem in Rot Weiß Rot" (English Title should be "Austrian Requiem") by Kurt Schuschnigg.
Should be somewhere in the first 50 pages.
But i know of no source of the Austrian Army crossing the border to germany durring the actual "Invasion".
Italy: Don’t worry, Austria, you’re my friend, I’ll make sure you’re independent and safe.
Austria: Awesome
5 seconds later.
Italy: About that...
Italy Teleports behind: *Nothing personal, kid.*
Italy: I am too lazy help you.
@@jamiebarba5701 *too weak
Francesco Fulminis no, it was more about having more interest in having Germany as an ally than having Austria under Italian influence
luca draghi it was in the Roman Empire making plan of Mussolini. But Bento was in the choice of A. Getting a country to be in control and border increase for future new Roman Empire protectorate but being hated by a more military and economically powerful racist nation or B. being spared by the 3rd Reich which thought that Italy stabbed Germany in the back in ww1 and being allies with one of the only fascist in Europe
1:51 a chap with a funny mustashe
*OVERSIMPLIFIED* *WANTS* *TO* *KNOW* *YOUR* *LOCATION*
This enraged his father... who punished him severely
@@Kerriangel lol
Lmao
DON'T PLEASE! HE'LL PUNISH US SEVERELY!
Found another Romanian:))
It is extremely ironic that Italy was guaranteeing Austria's independence lol.
Also, I really wish we could buy a package of actual signs with all the best captions they've had from this show. They are so damn funny.
WHERE CAN I BUY THE SIGNS!!!!
I want a "Soon" sign, but I gotta get the stare down first to go with it.
Tbf Anschluss happened after France and Britain fucked over Italy
@@wtfbros5110 what did britain and france do?
@@jmgonzales7701 after italian invasion of ethiopia
Fun fact, mexico was the only nation to protest the Anschluss, Austria later built a monument and named a square after the Mexican nation. Something around that idk but I do know Austria appreciated Mexico’s protest.
I think we had a jubilee about that and it was in the state news
It's even more curious when you realize a Hapsburg monarch was enthroned by the French during the Mexican-French war of 1861, Maximilian I of Mexico. After Mexico ultimately won the war against the French (in a similar fashion to what the Spanish did ~50 years before), they executed him. So Austria should probably have brought back them some bad memories (albeit none compared to their northern neighbours, of course).
i swear on these controversial international affairs, one central/south american country will come out and do something against it
@@HAMBURBER1 what
That is no exactly the post-war history rewriting Austria had to do…
Oh no That evil Anschluss at least Mexiko protested it even if we didn’t at the time (shh don’t say that out loud) that bad … German dude (technically right since we also technically are Germans) was really evil. We didn’t help him of course.
Can now please the red army leave our country, we already signed to never become Germany again, please!
All in all, the (great) majority of Austrians wanted to be part of Germany, yet not all of them wanted to be part of "that Germany".
It was totally expected because humans have different perspectives.
but why do they wantet to be part of germany, that is the more important questions. It is mostly because austria had the biggest economic crisis of its existance, germany basically embargoded them and made a hell lot of propaganda for themself. and the wrong statistics about german economy even made germany look better
@@christian9125abd support for unification was still high just after the Ww1, during the time of Wiemar republic, and that tine Germany was also going through economic crisis.
@@mradulchourasiya3868 look it up, there was never an free election where the majority voted like that. and even in 1919 there was no majority, thats why the ruling party made no vote about it.
Austrians committed the same war crimes as the Germans. Somehow someway the got away with the idea of being the first victim of Nazi Germany while the truth is that the support for Hitler's plans was overwhelming.
another fun fact: the official number of paramilitary troops of Austrian resistance during WWII was less than 1000. Literally less than 1000 austrians fought against the Nazi regime during WWII. They got away with a lot of stuff in the name of the West's interest to contain Communism.
Isn’t Austria that one with the kangaroos?
I swear it's Australia with all the mountains and snow and cities of enormous cultural importance in Europe
Lolo 500 sounds right to me
and that will be the reason If Austraila ever wins the eurovision song contest, they will hold theirs in Austria, just to confuse the rest. (and because we come closest in the actual spelling.)
Yeah, there have been kangaroos in Austria since Hannibal's first attempt to cross the Alps. On his second attempt, he used elephants instead, but they all died, so there haven't been any elephants in Switzerland or Austria. This has been your alternate timeline history snippet.
It's crazy that for most of human history, there was this faraway continent with kangaroos and other crazy animals hopping around and nobody in the rest of the world knew even suspected it existed.
“Don’t be a hero” got me ...
Damn you Treaty of Versailles.
“Hey boss, remember that guy with the skinny mustache that rejected from our art school?”
“Yeah, what about him?”
“Look, he’s annexing our entire country and sending troops in and will probably kill us.”
Hell hath no fury like an art student scorned.
Great Video Chap! A short story my Granny used to tell me: A women from my village voted with "No" to the Anschluss, they looked instantly at the sheet and got her back, told her that she voted "wrong" and gave her a new sheet.
@European Awakening No, the head of a Companie in my village voted with no and as the war started they drafted all of his employees
@@WolfMaker12 Wtf is your fucking problem? Whats wrong with my story?
@European Awakening Yes we saw how well the yes turned out for us...
@European Awakening Yea if you weren't jewish, gay, disabeld, socialist or democrat then it maybe was pretty cool...
dont worry austria we got your back ;)
*ow wait*
Gotta break the Italian record by switching sides before a war even starts
Flavius Belisarius fuck you xD
Actually you do have their backs.
Give them Südtirol back@
Wooolfytune von der Schahnhorst yeah South Tyrol for Austria
i think it is important to mention the fact that up until the Anschluss the political situation in Austria was very unstable with riots and even shootings, which might have led some to believe joining Germany and thereby dissolving this rivalling political theatre might solve the problem.
0:46 Looking like Crimean referendum of 2014.
I would think its the same kind of situation, not the most legit referendum but probably would've resulted the same had it been.
@@UrMom-jb7vl probably, doesn't change the fact that it's falsified and illegitimate.
One might also wanna meantion, that the situation after WW1 was pretty bad for Austria (things like famines and sh*t), while Germany was also not having a nice day it was still better and a lot of Austrians thought that Anschluss would solve their problems, like the massive unemployment. (It also kind of did help... if you dont mind the past unemployed are now freezing to death in Russia)
Thank you for making so many videos about Austrian history :)
Although Austria seems so small and insignificant today, it played a key role in global history over the last few centuries.
All I remember was that jaw
@halloumi If you read my comment again, this time more carefully, you will see that I have written "seems insignificant" and not "is insignificant". I'm Austrian myself and have a realistic overview about Austria's role in international affairs, thus I don't think it's justified for you to insult me.
And not to forget that only an Austrian commander could take the *sole credit* of having defeated Napoleon in a battle. Love from India bro.
@@Progamermove_2003ahh come on.. We all know how much the aggressive painter were, and are, admired by both of you.
Truely questionable judgment capabilities!
The winners always manipulate history. And Austria is very ashamed of its past, therefore they want to deny everything.
What did we deny?
What's interesting is that Austrian Nazi Officers tried to take over Austria in the July Coup of 1934. While it failed, they did manage to kill the pro-independence dictator of Austria, Engelbert Dollfuss. It was the Italian divisions sent by Mussolini that managed to stop the nazis from forcing their way into Vienna. Indeed, Dollfuss and Mussolini were close friends and allies. Up to Dollfuss' death, Austria and Italy shared a very similar ideology; Mussolini viewed Austria as a friendly buffer-state against the threatening German threat. "The independence of Austria, for which he has fallen, is a principle that has been defended and will be defended by Italy even more strenuously", declared Mussolini in a speech following the death of his ally. Therefore, we can consider Dollfuss's assassination to be the first step in the rapprochement between Germany and Italy that resulted in the infamous Pact of Rome, enabling the Anschluss described here.
The full name of Austria between the world wars was "Republic of German-Austria" who asks if the Austrians wanted to be part of germany ignores the fact that the entente forbid a Union between Germany and Austria direclty after the first world war with the threat to continou the war.
That ballot with "shoot me" in Gothic script is the content that I watch this channel for
Great short videos but will you ever bring back 10 minute videos?
Imo content should always determine length.. :)
Wow, it's like there's this community tab where you can go read what he said about more 10 min videos. Maybe go read that instead of spamming the comment section like everyone else asking the. exact. same. fucking. question.
@@jonathanmensch9698 Where is this community tab? Link? Please less sarcasm.. Life is too short for this.
@@jonathanmensch9698 How would people know to go there, let alone know that it's an active area? I've scrolled down through to last year, and no mention of what he said about more 10 minute videos, you douchey liar.
@@ChrisDynamo it's 3 months ago. Where he talks about the channel name change and the new direction of the channel. Reading comprehension is your friend.
Do you ever read a title and feel the demonetisation
How so?
amcc666 suppose yt love nazis
TH-cam should be banned because of the Balkenkreuz in full screen 😅
It’s interesting how movies like “the sound of music“ make it seem like Austria was taken by force, when actually a majority wanted a unification with Germany even before the Anschluß.
Yeah before Hitler came to power. Kind of a big deal. Even the video explains that many Austrians turned against the idea of unification after Hitler came to power.
@@anakinthemannequin69 that's called hiding Austrains's real intentions
@@anakinthemannequin69 /watch?v=k6Wa4BL28OM The Austrians wanted reunification and they loved Hitler.
I love your videos and live for them! I do hope you bring back the 10 minute videos though.
true
no life
When talking about the Anschluss I think it´s important to also talk about Dollfuß and the Ständestaat that came before.
Austria was also a fascist nation, that's something VERY overlooked while at the peace conference.
Well Hitler was from Austria and as far as I can tell he wasn't against the idea :p
He actually despised the Austro-Hungarian empire. That's why he fled and joined the German army in the wake of WW1.
@@Siegbert85 It sounds like you disagree with me on what happened.
@@joakimsiljelind118 He was pan German, but didn't have a special infinity for Austria, is what I'm saying
Kurt Schuschnigg was desperate to keep the Nazi’s from annexing Austria, to the point where he engaged in conversation with Otto von Hapsburg about restoring the monarchy to preserve Austrian independence
even thought he was a dictator he was one of our best cancellors. and later on he was a proffessor on a university in the usa for state law
@@christian9125abd he was one of the worst chancellors... by far.
He failed to reform austria economically.
He enforced arbitrary hardline conservative / christian rules to the point of marriage and childbirth being an undesireable thing (i can expand on that).
He failed to strengthen the political system by oppressing all other parties, even tho his own party got consitently less popular (for the former mentioned reasons), leaving his own government to be very weak.
He sold out Austria by following the dictate of germany of including NS politicians in 36 in his government, further weakening his rule and making a potential civil war way worse.
He failed to make new foreign allies and stuck to the old alliances of Italy and Hungary, even when Italy sold them out later.
I used to think he was a grey character in the history of Austria, because despite all the things he did i thought he did it all to keep Austria independent, but the more one reseaches about the guy the more one sees how bad he really was.
And even in his Memoirs "Austrian Requiem" (Ein Requiem in Rot-Weiß-Rot) he washed himself of all the blame in the last few pages.
Very good video covering so much in under 3 minutes! May i add something: to 1:25 The Treaty of Versailles was not where Austrias matters were covered, this was the treaty of Saint Germain. (But as with Germany, Austrians weren't allowed to negotiate anything or even to take part, just to receive the terms) In this treaty the austrian territory of south tyrol was given to italy, and the majority of austrian inhabitants of Bratislava (Preßburg) and Maribor (Marburg) was ignored. (Even today everytime they get asked, the Slovenian government for example refuses to give minority rights to their native german speakers.)
As for the referendum: i want to add that at the time they held the referendum all members of other political parties were either incarcarated or not allowed to vote, as were the jewish population and people who openly criticised the new authorities.
And while Austria was long considered the first victim , that is no longer the case. Neither in the mind of its inhabitants nor most other peoples minds. People in Austria are made aware of what happend quite often, not just in school (history) but in everyday life they get often reminded that people of this country did terrible things during WW2.
Actually the State of Austria is and always was the first victim, but the German people living there weren't.
I enjoy the variety of topics however i do miss the longer videos
The map of Europe after the Anschluß looks like Czechoslovakia fertilising the ovum that is Germany.
not to forget that when Hitler visited Vienna for a speech, Austrian citizens celebrated in joy as if a rockstar would hold a concert.
Alot of people forget that after ww1 Austria wanted to join Germany
Yes, the majority wanted it in 1919.
in the early 1930s, the majority did not want this anymore.
Ahhh that moment you get cores on 6 million people, all their industry, their divisions, get their generals and a field marshall and as a bonus you also get 75 political power, 10% stability and war support.
Who can say Austria is not German?
*This comment section* :
10%: HoI4 References
30%: "Did Austria opposed the Idea of "Anschluss" with Nazi Germany ?
*WeLL YeAh BuT aCtUaLLy No!!1!1!* "
40%: Italy switching sides jokes
20%: Actual interesting and/or funny comments
could you pls guide me to the 20%?
Congrats on 200K subscribers!! You deserve way more but I’m sure you’ll get there eventually
The thumbnail is wrong. It‘s „Anschluss“ not „Anchluss“
„Do you want to join Germany?“
*“JA!“ “Shoot Me“*
I would have thought that Germany was the first victim of Nazification.
@Somali Kid actually, in theory, it's possible
Middles of 20th century: Nazification
Beginning of 21st century:
Islamification
@@ЯковН-ю9х ohh mg did you just compare a religion to Nazis that's like compareing Christianity to Nazism (I bet you don't like that) Islam hasn't killed 60,000,000 jews/homosexuals/(anybody really) also all religion is pretty barbaric tho as it all has 0 proof
@@ЯковН-ю9х but I respect everybody's religious beliefs I'm not a millitan atheist
@@ЯковН-ю9х not in theory, in practice. Hitler's SS were militant thugs until they became the leaders of the country, many people were killed by the SS before Hitler took power (admittedly most were communists)
Also don't forget the that Austrian troops also entered Germany at the same time. It was called the Blumenkrieg.
Literally the other way around.
@@truckwarrior5944 what?
@@lucasclimo2621 It was not Austrians entering Germany but the other way around.
The Austians literally retreated deeper into their land, they did not enter Germany.
@@truckwarrior5944 they did, Austria entered Germany at the same time Germany entered Austria, it was a symbol of unification.
@@truckwarrior5944 moron
"We can conclude if they had run an honest referendum they would have still won..."
-Crimea 2014.
Thankyou for a non-bias fact backed video . Always appreciate those willing to look at events fairly
me, a german, without watching the video:
*yes*
Last time I'm commenting italo-ethiopian war of 1895
Never stop recommend it!
Even if you stop commenting I'll pick up the torch!
@@monsieurboks thanks mate
The Pwnage at Adowa
as an Austrian I'll say what I've heard around here. from my experience most Austrians definitely did side with the Aunschluß however 99% is a bit far fetched a more accurate number would be somewhere between 60-75% as there were quite the number of whom who were against it. do note that I'm hearing this second hand from people who went through it so take what I say with a grain of salt. pretty much everyone who sided with the Anschluß regretted putting such an evil man in charge but back then all we saw was the good side of what he was doing in improving people's lives. all the atrocities and war crimes were kept secret from everyone except the SS. while I'm on the subject the Wehrmacht did not necessarily share the nazi ideology, they were simply the german military whereas the SS was Hitler's personal brainwashed PMC basically who were mostly put in charge of the concentration camps
"Some chap with a funny mustache." may be the best description to describe him without actually saying who his name.
Mussolini did not stop caring, at first he was furious because Austria was not only Fascist, it was also part of the Italian sphere of influence and it acted as a buffer state between the two, a buffer state Benito wanted to keep, he made a speech against Hitler and started planning to invade Germany with the allies, he only later calmed down and the idea of entervening got off his mind.
As an austrian, I support reunification with germany
me too
@@ActanonVerba.308 nice
@@Luka__1 Ich bin Österreicher! Flagge links ignorieren.
no
Ihr seid doch nicht mehr dicht im schädel
"Scandaluss!" -Ashley D
Scandaluss
@@destroyer2496 Great idea
Almost 200K subs, nice job
I eat arse
What even is this pfp
@@eurasianlynx5584 this explains every leftist
@@urethracactus2270 Yeah, what's your point?
@@urethracactus2270 wow you are stupid as fuck. stalin and the soviet Union never killed any LGBTQ+ people because of that attribute. I don't even like stalin. I think he was stupid. My pfp is obviously a joke.
"JA!" ..."shoot me!" 😁
Could you do the Vienna Awards next? The two agreements that gave Hungary land from Slovakia and Romania.
and then you lost it all, we kicked your ass
When it comes to the topic of Austria and Germany I sometimes wonder what Austrian schools teach. From "Nobody wanted to become part of Germany" to "Austria has always been entirely seperate from the rest of Germany and doesn't share any history with them" I have read so much bs from triggered Austrias of the web.
no we are quite aware of the fact that we willingly joined germany (lets be real its not like the austrians had any other choice, resisting would be absolutely hopeless) doesnt change the fact that austria willingly and quite cheerfully joined germany
about shared history, this aswell is bs, we learn about the hre etc. - the thing is many people have also weird opinions on the whole topic "austria only identifies as a nation because of ww2!!!" just shows that the person saying that has 0 clue about austro-germanic history
the term "german" is the main reason for that I think, back then identifying as "german" was like a pole and a russian both identifying as "slav"
now being "german" gets mostly confused with being an inhabitant of germany - so theres that, austrians still are ethnic germans and always have been, but thanks to germanys namesake the term is used entirely different in our time
so when they hear that austrians back then referred to themselves as "german" they automatically assume austria = germany and always have been
About the topic of the HRE, the Habsburgs of Austria ruled over the HRE for the majority of its existence, it wasnt germany but a rag tag cluster of germanic/italian nations - Austria had territory outside of the HRE and inside of it, then there came the powerstruggle between Austria and Prussia
Prussia wanted a united Germany, Austria basically grew out of being "german" with countries like hungary, slovenia, slovakia, czechia, croatia, romania and so on belonging to it
so the prussian plan of a united Germany didnt see Austria as a part of it - Austria certainly didnt want to lose out on potential power and engaged in a war against the prussians, which didnt end well for Austria
So now we are talking about a "united" Germany, or rather Prussia at this point - with Austria not being a part of it and a sometimes rival and sometimes ally in the centuries to come
While both countries share a ton of history, Austria is way too old, rich in History, a melting pot of german, italian and slavic culture to be simply considered "basically germany"
it triggers Austrians because people saying that seem to think Austria has neither culture nor history and simply exists because the Allies decided so
i want to add one thing to the whole "is the anschluss debated in austrian schools". yes it is, but the historical reappraisal could definitely be better (i think germany does quite a good job). this being said, austria denied its role in the second world war for decades, this is called the victim thesis, which has been disproved countless of times, but still remains part of right wing extremist rhetoric. Therefore austria took quite a long time to deal with its history and only in the mid 80s they acknowledged what they did because an ex-nazi became president of austria.
I read it as did Australia want the anchluss
“The notion of Germany and Austria being unified was not a new one and can be traced back to the unification of Germany.”*
Charlemagne: “Excuse me?”
*1871
Austria wasn't fully part of the Carolingian empire, its only around the 10th century (with the founding of the HRE) that the entire region was conquered. Also Charlemagne was more of a pan European ruler rather than a German one. Even then its only after the 15th century that Austria becomes a major player within the HRE so i would put the date around there
You forgot to mention that with the death Dolfuss whom was friend to Mussolini, annexation was inevitable since he was an austrifascist AND against unification of Germany based also on religious grounds
Yup, Austria's pre-Anschluss republican history gets shockingly overlooked in most sources. Most people aren't even aware of the fact that it actually turned fascist a mere year after Germany did although its fascism was much more Spanish-like, especially in its fanatical devotion to Catholicism (whereas Hitler, despite being Catholic himself, never feared anything more than the idea of resurgent sectarianism across Germany and made sure Nazi propaganda donwnplay the importance of the religious conflicts in the nation's history).
@@yarpen26 that is what I wanted to write originally but you mate sum it up nicely. Many Austrians, southern Germans and non-nobility disliked the fact that Germany was essentially runned by Prussian protestants
I think he calls him Fascist in the video.
As someone mentioned you could do one on munich agreement...really interesting topic
I like how Czechland is this wonderful piece of land that prevents Germany from being basically a square.
The Austrian dictator of Austria was just the Austrian dictator of Germany with glasses
I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Do Austrians want an Anschluss?
Let's ask Austrians!
P.S. I am not Austrian, but there is my view, based on my history knowledges: personally, I believe that modern Germany, Austria, Switzerland (at least 2/3 of territories) and Luxembourg (with some other lands, such as South Tyrol and Silezia) have to be one greater power on the world map...
I as an Austrian very much dislike current Germany in a Political sense.
Germany is still occupied by the US and has yet to create a Constitution, but no Politican is even trying to attempt that.
@@alexander1055 I can agree with you, this awful course of modern „Germany" must stop or must be stopped...
Although, what do you think about Großdeutschland idea in general, not in current situation with modern political leaders?
@@andriyg1244 I think it's a good concept but we shouldn't talk about what if scenarios.
Germanys current politics need to be sorted out before we can move forward.
@@alexander1055 Okey, I got your point of view. I hope, that there are many people with such thoughts, like you.
@@andriyg1244 A unified germany would definetly be wonderful (especially under a new Kaiser)
Edelweiss, edelweiss, every morning you greet me. Small and white, clean and bright, you look happy to meet me. Blossom of snow, may you bloom and grow. Bloom and grow forever. Edelweiss, edelweiss, bless my homeland forever.
Austrians liked to be German until they realized they had picked the losing side. Since then they've been trying to convince themselves and the world that they had always been against the Anschluss. 🎉
Cool video thanks for sharing ❤️
1:51 Was that an OverSimplified reference?
Actually Mussolini was rather angry and preoccupied that Germany annexed Austria since Mussolini wanted it to be independent
Not really, Hitler previously dropped his claims on German-speaking South Tirol, who was conquered by Italy in ww1, so they were even in some sense
@Lydia Köffler how exactly do you betray a defensive treaty by not joining their offensive war?
@@federicodanieli2707 By invading the country you had that defensive treaty with ...?
@@FriedrichHerschel the treaty was long dead by then, Hotzendorf himself devised several plans of preemptive intervention against Italy, in 1914 the holy alliance had largely ran its course
That stare at 2:34 o.o
Austria, for centuries one of the most powerful nations in Europe. Now they've just become a pawn in other nations games since WWI.
But they got a better deal than Prussia! Those guys don't even exist anymore!
Actually, they kind of do. The just became Brandenburgers like they had been before creating Prussia. The monarchy of Brandenburg got the Prussian land and then created Prussia, but the core was Brandenburg. It is a complicated issue, so you better read about it.
@@adamthetired9319 Originally Prussia didn't have anything to do with Brandenburg. So, the actual Prussia is now firmly in Poland.
Austria: *exists*
Hitler: It's free real estate.
Mussolini: Wait that's illegal.
Hitler: How about an alliance?
Mussolini: Eh, sure.
Austria: Am I a joke to you? >:(
The memes are becoming advanced in this comment.
People : How many memes do you want to cram into a single comment
You, an intelectual : Yes
Yes
Austria: *Considered the first victim of Nazi aggression*
Saarland: “Am I a joke to you?”
The difference is, that the Saarland voted to be German in a free election.
Austria did not.
@@truckwarrior5944 nobody will be ever able to tell if more than 50% would have votet for yes or not, as there were no results about that. even thought social democrats were for the anschluss, this was just a side theme and they got votet for other stuff
@@christian9125abd The social democrats were not for the Anschluss, thats just not true.
When the German forces occupied Austria, especially social democrats were hunted down by the SS, to make sure they could not continue to speak out against the Anschluss.
@@truckwarrior5944 the social democrats were agains the anschluss into hitlers germany
@@christian9125abd You said something else first.
Hey, I really like your videos, but I would love to see longer videos again (like the 10 minute videos you made). Would that be possible in the near future?
Greetings from Austria!
Could you guys please talk about the Czechoslovakia crisis of 38
As an Austrian, the answer is very simple: yes.
Duh! Austrians considered themselves as German for hundreds of years...until it wasn't sexy anymore.
NO MENTION OF ME? HOW DARE YOU!
Please, why can't we just have you back?! 😭😭
That may have something to do with the fact you're dead 4 years before the Anschluss ...
Because you were already killed.
Or me? Nah shit im dead too...
Because you're a 150 cm manlet bro
Very interesting, in Heinz Guderian’s accounts in ‘Panzer Leader’, he claimed he Austrians were elated with the sight of German forces entering Vienna.
"Annex me daddy"
LG. Austria
Lmao
Even churches draped their buildings with thicc swastikas. Everybody was thrilled that German speakers were finally under one banner.
Not all of them,the Swiss,Dutch and Liechtensteiny people were still left out
@@cv4809 Yeah, but you tell me about interfering in Switzerland, that place has been neutral since the 18th century. If Germany tried to do anything like proposing unification, France and the UK, being the warmongers they always are would have declared war much sooner.
@@WolfMaker12 What do you mean by warmongers? They only got involved when Germany Invaded Poland. Its not like Germany was forced to invade all those countries
@@CaringMind And started ww2 while also refusing to help the Baltic countries, Romania and Finland from the Soviets.
And Germany sent lots of peace requests both when they were winning the war, and when they were losing, none of them were accepted by Britain.
@@WolfMaker12 What is this silly talk, if Germany did not invade those countries Britain and France would not got involved. Its not like they rushed to get involved in the first place, or are you forgetting Germany made a pact with the soviets? Are you some nazi apologist?
I disagree, while yes the concept of unification was prominent, you left out the part where the Nazi's tried to coup Dolfuss and assassinated him, as well as many violent acts committed by them. While i dont think that would change some peoples idea of unification it most certainly would have disillusioned many with unifying with the Nazi regime
Not bad but a few things:
1) Anschluss is pronounced Ahn-schluss (not "Ann")
2) The fascist coup in Austria in 1934 failed (it's mentioned as if it succeeded; in response Mussolini moved troops to the Austrian border to signal to Hitler he shouldn't think about occupying Austria; Germany's military was weaker than Italy's at that point).
3) The Treaty of Versailles did not apply to Austria-Hungary only to Germany (Austria signed the Treaty of Saint-Germain, Hungary the Treaty of Trianon)
4) The roots of unifying all German-speaking peoples of Europe goes back much further than 1871, at least to the Holy Roman Empire
I always love videos like this