So why didn't Austria receive the flak Germany did at the

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>>1674583
>willfully annexed
>willfully

sage

>>1674583
>why didn' Austri recieved the flak Germany did after WWI?
Look at a map of Europe in 1914 and then one from 1919. They were destroyed as a great power and the economic order of Central Europe was totally rearranged in the wake of the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian empire. Furthermore, they were not allowed to join Germany after the war, despite the Wilsonian "ideals" of self determination for all nations. Austrians often perceived themselves as Germans in a part of a large empire. When the empire was left, they were just Germans, but denied the ability to join the German nation state and instead set afloat to manage themselves in the wake of WWI.

>>1674583
But they were. They were occupied by all four major powers and were literally forced to declare neutrality in all future European affairs. They only seem to have come off lightly because the Soviet Union didn't make their sector independent like they did in Germany.

>>1674583
because they invented economics
just all dick and no brain in its application unfortiunately

>>1674583
Because denazification was about destroying Germany's pride and military power so they wouldn't be a threat yo Europe's balance of power. This wasn't necessary for Austria.