Why did Hitler not try and get to power in Austria?

Question

Would it not have been easier?

Germany has more ppl so it would have been harder plus hitler was austrian

Answer 1

Think about it this way. Say you wanted to make all of North America one country. Which country would you try and take over first? If you answer the United States, you can then see why Hitler, even though Austrian, went after Germany first.

By taking over the country in the region that was the most powerful, he could work on taking over the weaker ones.

Do you think a leader in Mexico or Canada could ever be strong enough to take over the US? Not likely.

So, you take over the strongest country in the region if you want conquest. Or you would have to take over a weaker one and make it strong, but that takes lots of time.

Answer 2

Although Hitler grew up in what we now call Austria, in those days the area was strongly under Bavarian influence.
The area is close to the German border. Many Austrians along the border considered themselves to be German-Austrians. Although they were subjects of the Austrian Hapsburg Monarchy and its multicultural empire, they expressed loyalty to the German Imperial House of Hohenzollern and its Kaiser.
In defiance of the Austrian Monarchy, Adolf Hitler and his young friends liked to use the German greeting, "Heil," and sing the German anthem "Deutschland Uber Alles," instead of the Austrian Imperial anthem.
Hitler's father had worked as an Austrian Imperial customs agent and continually expressed loyalty to the Hapsburg Monarchy, perhaps unknowingly encouraging his rebellious young son to give his loyalty to the German Kaiser.
There was also a history teacher at school, Dr. Leopold Pötsch, who touched Hitler's imagination with exciting tales of the glory of German figures such as Bismark and Frederick The Great. For young Hitler, German Nationalism quickly became an obsession.

Answer 3

It would have been easier, but imagine Austria attempting to annex Germany, then go on a military campaign throughout Europe in the name of a small country whose biggest contribution to the world has been a Mr. Universe.

Answer 4

Throughout this period the charge of 'too little too late' was occasionally levelled at Austria, but it made little impact. Austria was either too small - in international terms - to matter, or it was seen as an enclave of tranquillity and good order (and 'permanent neutrality' between east and west), which ought to be cultivated.

'Waldheim had concealed or "forgotten" important details of his military service in World War Two.'
Things began to change in the 1970s, but perhaps the most dramatic turning-point was at the time of the controversy over Kurt Waldheim, the former UN secretary general, who was an Austrian presidential candidate in 1986. Throughout his post-war career Waldheim had concealed or 'forgotten' important details of his military service in World War Two. As his past came to be known, through journalistic investigations and leaks, during his campaign, he spoke of having only 'done his duty' in the German Wehrmacht. It was hardly the comment of a victim of the Nazi regime, and caused a furore within Austria as well as outside it. Nevertheless Waldheim was elected president, and Austria's international standing plummeted.

Domestic reaction to the affair consisted partly of a defiant, partly patriotic, assertion of Austria's right to ignore outside opinion. Other elements almost (or actually) offered an apologia for the 'good side' of the Nazi regime; many of these people were found in the Freedom Party (FPO), along with its rising star Jörg Haider. But the Waldheim affair also prompted heart-searching and self-criticism, especially from the post-war generation. And there was by now a more self-confident Jewish community in Austria, whose members were not prepared to keep quiet, or be intimidated by actual or threatened anti-Semitism.

Answer 5

He wanted to get into power in Germany because he believed that Germans were the master race

Answer 6

Because the Germans state is far large and more powerful then Austria had become after the first world war

Answer 7

The situation at the time was more chaotic in Germany and he probably felt that he could gain a greater power there

Answer 8

They were already staunch allies of Hitler and Germany and had been for a long time. I suppose Hitler considered it part of his empire anyway seeing as they basically did everything they told him to.

Answer 9

He didn't need to he just co-opted Austria through the Anschluss.

Answer 10

no it wouldn't of been easlyer as the austrian's had no choose to be on his side in the first place. But they then revolted against his dictatorship and joned our side.