Why Isn't Austria Part of Germany? 

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Actually after WW1 Austria wasnt left with just Austria but even less (especially the loss of Southern Tyrolia)

Considering that Austria was the dominant power in the Holy Roman Empire for over 300 years, the real question should be: Why isn't Germany part of Austria?

You see, one Austrian asked himself the same thing about 90 years ago

As an Austrian: I think it is important to note, that most of the Austrian population happily became part of Nazi-Germany. It is a quite popular but revisionistic narrative that Austria was Nazi-Germany's first victim, a role Austria tried to take after WWII... Of course the "Anschluss" wasn't exactly voluntary, which didn't exactly matter due to widespread Nazi-enthusiasm in 1938 (3 days after annexation Hitler was frenetically received by 250.000 Austrians on Vienna's Heldenplatz).

Hello there from Germany. Thats an integral part of german History which you brought up here in english and which is a topic in every german school in history lessons .I'm very astonished that u made it to explain that within 7 minutes as it is a very complex topic. I didn't see any mistake in your explanation - keep up the good work :) You might could have gone a bit more in detail with the northern german and southern german confederation, the french and also the german republic idea right before, but as far as I see it, there is so far nothing missing.

One thing regarding 1:06 The Kingdom of Prussia had it's capital in Berlin. It was a part of the empire, the name was just derived from East Prussia, because in 1701 the first king could not crown himself a king within the HRE because it was against the rules. Therefore he essentially crowned himself "King in Prussia" technically not being a king within the HRE. But the country he ruled over was Brandenburg-Prussia with it's capital and center of power in Brandenburg, not Prussia.

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A jerk with a silly moustache.! Loved it. So informative!.

As a South Tyrolean, I'd root for a unification of all german territories.

It's always asked why austria isn't part but never why the other countries (benelux, switzerland) aren't part despite being part of the holy roman empire

You forgot to mention the fact in order to get the soviets and Americans out in the 50s they had to sign a treaty where it is stated under literally any circumstance can not join Germany

I love how you put your videos together. They educate and have some humor which keeps them interesting. Excellent👍☺!

Austria WAS a part of Germany already. But havent you heard, Germany lost WW2? So Austria had to be removed to make Germany smaller. Weaker. So Britain and France can make Germany behave according to the Anglo-French european order.

Another enjoyable and informative video.

Germany - Bavaria -> Austria + Bavaria (please!)

I learned a bit of this researching my Mary Theresa video but this has a lot more depth. Well done.

Short answer: The 1955 Austrian State Treaty, which let Austria gain independence from the Allied occupation while also banned the reunification of Germany and Austria forever.

Servus from Austria

This does not change the fact that in Australia there are 48 million Kangaroos and in Uruguay there are 3,457,380 inhabitants. So if the Kangaroos decide to invade Uruguay, each Uruguayan would have to fight off 14 kangaroos

Das wurde sehr gut (und übersichtlich) zusammengefasst.

Pretty accurate and unbiased summary. Nice one.

The real question here is why isn't Germany called "Westenreich"?

Brilliant! Another thing that I never knew :)

I don't know, if somebody already did tell you, but the "Really not cool" at 6:42 from Austria shouldn't be there. We have a term for this in Austria "Die Opferrolle Österreichs" or "Opferthese", meaning "the role of victim of Austria" or "Austrian victim theory". Look it up on Wikipedia. Austria really wasn't a victim. The Austrians greeted Hitler in Austria. And of course some people where against Austria joining the German Empire, but a great ammount of Austrians voted for the anixasion.

So in short, they were too strong to play second fiddle to Prussia, but too weak to launch their own unification project.

Who knew Germany was once the Holy Roman Empire? Well, James did I suppose. Thanks for another great video!

Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia are very alike nations ...this 4 could form one country easy

the arch in archduke is pronounced like archbishop not like in archangel.

"common blood belongs to a common reich" austrian painter

People in the comments: „Lasst die Spiele beginnen!“ 😂😂😂

Thank you very much for this very informative video!

The question is not why Austria is not part of Germany. Considering European history the only valid question is why Germany is not part of Austria. :)

Do Austrians thnk their country is shaped like a Chicken Drumstick?

Why isn't Transylvania Hungary? Why isn't Moldova Romania? Why isn't Monaco France? Why aren't Vatican and San Marino Italian? Why isn't Mt Ararat Armenian? Lots of other similar questions.

It would be more correct to say: "Why is Germany not Austrian?" For centuries, Austria was an infinitely superior power to old Prussia (at least until the wars of the 19th century, when the Prussians unified all the various German statelets). In fact, Austria was the backbone of the Holy Roman Empire. Until 1939, the cultural center of Germany was Königsberg - current Kaliningrad -, the central city of Teutonic civilization and Kantian philosophy... Vienna, on the other hand, was the true "capital" of the Germanic world, as well as of all Central Europe. It is no coincidence that the Turks, in the siege of 1683, aimed to destroy this city: it was the gateway to the Holy Roman Empire and to Italy, as well as the major cultural center of the time together with Paris, Venice, Rome and London. In fact, destroying and conquering (in primis) Vienna, (et in secundis) Venice and then Rome meant depriving Western Civilization of its socio-cultural and political identity. Berlin certainly cannot compete with Vienna on that point of view.

Very good summary without mistakes a high light in the english speaking world in regards to this matter, congratulations.

great video,,,,,,, but i have a tip, i would suggest not making your youtube icon the union jack, i say this cus ppl might think that you might be biased towards Britain or that you only do british history. Anyway great vid!

If Austria Empire dissolved earlier, it may have been annexed by German Empire. German Empire just does not want the non germanic population of Austria Empire.

I think another probable reason why Fredrick William IV turned down becoming German emperor was because he didn't want to risk war with Austria,a war that would've probably involved Russia.

Meanwhile Germans: Wait this isn’t actually Germany?

Napoleon was Corsican Hitler was Austrian Stalin was Georgian Sea a pattern?

Short answer : because he allies forbid it. The only time Austria gave itself a constitution w/o outside threats was 1919 and paragraph 2 stated: "Austria is part of the german nation and must unify with Germany" The follow on dictate of the allies scrapped this constitution. Even so until after WW2 no one in the world except the US State Dept held that Austria was anything but German. However Austria was only released from allied occupation under the condition it never unifies with Germany again. After WW2 the propaganda in Austria was turned up to 11 and every schoolchild in Austria "learns" that Austria is "not german". This is the sole reason many modern Austrians have been robbed of their heritage. (plus post war treaties forbid Austria once again to unify)

Germany is not a sovereign state; it would not be allowed to unite with Austria without consent of the USA

I am glad austria is not part of germany because we here in austria have more freedom than strict germany. So less rules useless rules. I am very glad and i would never prefer germany over austria

Every time our nations joined somehow, it ended in a world war... maybe we should just stay friends xD

Austrians are ethnic Germans they speak german

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😁😁😁 Austrians will absolutely HATE this thumbnail hahahaha

3:30 Austria suggested the greater Austrian solution, the greater German solution was suggested by southern germans

As a German I am well aware of all that history, which we learn in detail in school. I don't see a valid reason not to re-unify with Austria in modern times, however, as surely our neighbours, all of whom are our allies, are no longer afraid of us, the German people. And all claims by Austrians being a "seperate" culture to Germans nowadays are a bit questionable, as these differences are no larger than any others between regions of Germany. There certainly is a sort of cultural continuum between Bavaria and Austria for example, and Austrians are not much more different from North Germans than Bavarians are, who are already part of Germany.

Short answer: Because the Entente (and the Allies later on) denied the Germans their right of peoples to self-determination.

The upmost reason is battle of koniggratz, everything else is just follow up.

in the image of austria after ww1 a bit is missing: the southern part of tyrol ;-)

I like the ragtime background music.

You forgot to mention how Arnold came to America.

because historically it is older than Germany. And it has always been different from Germany, in many ways. Language is not everything.

The Question is, why istn Germany not a part of Austria. The Habsburger should be the King of German Empire, Großdeutsche Lösung. But Austria dont want to loose Hungary or Northern Italy.

Very interesting! As an Austrian, I can tell you, beeing "not German" is a very big part of our identity! It even went so far, the German TV commercials were dubbed with Austrian voices - although the German voice would have been well understood - they both were not an extrem dialect or so. It just felt more "ours" with Austrian voice. Its not that we do not like Germans (most Austrians have German friends and have enjoyed visiting Germany and its all fine between us) it just feels so wrong to "be German".

That background music is absolutely annoying for a documentary video 👎

The military occupation of Austria wasn’t done to compel a favorable outcome, Austria overwhelmingly wanted to join Germany.

Their is a lot of irony in Austrian-German history, and most times, to Austria’s detriment. The greatest irony, however, in today’s Austria has nothing to do with our relationship with Germany, After the 1st World War, all of Austrian ethnic regions formed their own states and went their own ways. Austria was only a little leftover, impoverished and cut off from all its historic ties, Today, millions of Austrians are more or less recent immigrants from exactly these and some more neighboring countries, who have come here for the better job opportunities, social benefits and living standards. Go figure.

Why is not the German speaking population in Switzerland part of Germany. Why is not Republika Srpska un Bosnia part of Serbia. Why is not the Sweedish population in Finland part of Sweeden.

Having lived in both countries. Austria IS Germany without all the BS

Why Belgium isn't part of France/Netherlands?

I've this understand that the Austrians wanted to unite with a german republic, not with the third reich. So is it true force wouldn't have been needed in the refrefendum if Germany was a republic in 1938? Edit: I mean they definitely wanted to do that in 1919 so how much would have changed in under 20 years?

How would World War I have ended if there had been Greater Germany or Greater Austria?

Last time it was shit happened

🇦🇹 Australia is not Part Of Germany me : oh!!!! Where Is Kangoroo!!! 😁

"Why isn't Austria part of Germany?" Well we were... but it didn't end very well

Okay but why isn't Switzerland a part of Germany 🤔

Why don't they join Germany today?

So now do a new video called, why isn't Germany part of Austria, allright?! Thank you 😋

The video was great and also entertaining, but the end was a bit imprecise. The occupation zones weren't seperate states. Except for the Soviet occupation zone in Germany...

Love your videos but hate the background music. Your videos would be perfection with just your narration.

Ich bin Österreicher. Mich wundert es, dass Leute die keine Ahnung haben mich als Deutschen bezeichnen. Genausogut könnte man sagen, dass die Briten Amerikaner sind. Was für ein Blödsinn.

Well since it's first Dynasty (the Babenberg Dynasty) even when Part of the HRR, the Austrian Lands and were granted several special rights through imperial privileges, mainly the privilegium minus and the privilegium maius that enabled the Duchy not only to become an Archduchy which elevated it in all but in Name to the honors and symbols of a kingdom within the old empire, this paved the way for developing statehood within the empire, and from the time the Habsburgs had risen to the Imperial Throne and held it for more than six centuries, the Austrian Lands were constituent part of the HRR but never felt German as the Habsburgs also ruled over Bohemia, (greater) Hungary, big parts of modern Italy, the Netherlands and not to forget Spain, which within the empire it made their holdings more diverse and multi lingual so were the rulers themselves. Within the realm not only the nobility but the people mixed over the centuries. The princely states of the HRR felt and spoke german (Bohemia was the only but partial exception, it had a significant german speaking middle and upper class and nobility). But german nationality in the modern sense did not develop before the Napoleonic wars started. Which also saw the end of the HRR which had become unrulable for a truly european dynasty also due to this fact the last HRR Emperor first kept held as the only Person in history two imperial titles for two years and then dropped the HRR Title and declared the Holy roman empires ending via formal announcement through a herald and went with the austrian imperial title in his own power. That and many more occurances led to the fact that austrians are central europeans but only partially german. The mix of all allmost all european countries heritage is to be found within the austrian population, making it unique. Fun fact: nowadays the austrian population is the most EU sceptic within the continent, the loss of imperial and mainly cultural power is still felt.

You have missed the part religion played in the north-south divide of German identity. Excellent summary all the same.

Why wasn't Austria split in two like Germany with an "austrian GDR" if you will?

I should point out that one of the conditions for the Soviet Union allowing all the occupation zones in Austria to be united was that the reunited Austria had to declare permanent neutrality during the Cold War.

we needed a place which people confuse with australia

Why isnt Austria part of Germany? Well why ist the usa part of the uk

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Why isn't Canada part of the US?

The allies did a bit of trolling

Holy roman empress Maria Theresa was the only woman to have held the title of empress of the holy roman empire. She was the legitimate leader of Austria. Her husband Francis I was the ruler of the holy Roman empire since only men was allowed to be rulers of the holy Roman empire. She got the title of empress of a holy Roman empire as a compromise since she was a ruler of the biggest and strongest german state at the time. This is also why there was a short brake of austrian emporors of the holy Roman empire. Yeah they went back to voting for Austria as the leader of the HRE as soon as she had gotten herself married to Francis I.

personally i think that Austria should just become part of Japan, the issue of German unification will never come up again.

so was the holy roman empire germany or austria or both?

Why Germany ceded land to Poland after WWII ?

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Austria was part of Germany for 7 years. When most of the Austrians who wanted Unification in 1938 saw what a nightmare it was, they quickly learnt their lesson.

Why is austria not part of hungary????

Reading this title immediately made me think this video was made by Adolf Hitler

Why Germany is not a part of Austria? German is first of all a cultural term.

Oesterreich (The Eastern Kingdom) aka Austria had its own King. He presided over a realm which included Hungary, parts of what became Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. There was no desire to become part of Germany until it was incorporated by the Nazis in 1938.

German history is really awkwardly complicated I always believe the germany of today is just mainly an invisible prussia as the uk is english while bavaria is a distinct region that is close to austria as scotland to Ireland we should call germany the united german states in sense the united states of America isnt including Canada. Or be called the german union😂

Again with this? Not long ago an Austrian asked the same question, went to Germany and came back to Austria to ask the same question again. First with incited "protestors" and then with a whole army.

And nowadays is still forbidden by the germain treaty? Or it just hasn't been done because it will be too much paperwork?

Oh shit the song in the background is that same song that plays in Gray Still Plays videos whenever he does something wacky.

Short answer? Because after WW2, being german, wasn't something desirable. In the late 18th and throughout the 19th century, both Prussia and Austria fought for the right to be the leading power in the unification. Both saw themselves and the other as Germans. After Prussia unified Germany, Austria, or at least the Austrian crouwn and aristocracy, didn't want to become the junior partner, but that didn't mean the sentiment in the head of the people was gone. Skip to the pre WW2 era. There were two german states. One germany, and one Austria. Now skip to the post-war era, and after a world war with deaths on a scale, never seen and industrialized killing of 'undesirables', the Austrians had a backup nationality to fall back on to. Their strategy worked! Nowadays, if you're talking to normal people around the world, people who are not history geeks, the dont even know that hitler was Austrian. They know that germany started all and that Austria was the first 'victim'. If they hear Germany, they think first of Nazis, than of all these positive cliches. If they think of Austrians, they think of Sissy, of chocolate, and of mountains.