Az osztrák Trianon. A saint-germaini békeszerződés
The Austrian Trianon. The Peace Treaty of St. Germain

Summary/Abstract: Although in the post-1918 history of Austria the question of Anschluss was continually on agenda, a significant part of the Austrian political and cultural elite gradually accepted their new country, which grew less than Hungary after Trianon. By resurrecting a modernized version of the Austrian idea, they tried to establish a German-Austrian, or Austrian state as the bulk of a new Central European order. The study focuses on the Austrian conception of the Monarchy’s break-up, and shows the eff orts made by the new Austrian diplomacy to promote cooperation among the Danube peoples beside the perspective of Anschluss, regarded as a mere economic necessity. Finally, bowing to the great powers’ will and following some early Erfüllungspolitik, made considerable efforts to make the population accept the small nation status, by placing the political-economic subservience ahead of any juridical and historical argument. Although the allegedly punitive Peace Treaty had forbidden the Anschluss, Austria’s war responsibility was not proclaimed. Austria did not pay any reparations and even achieved some territorial gains at the negotiators’ table.

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