French 3rd Colonial Division in F14

[jonnymacbrown]

You could say they were a military protectorate of Imperial Germany. I think there were internal forces in Germany promoting an Anschluss even then, with the Kaiser to be proclaimed Emperor based upon some obscure claim, and the Hapsburgs deposed. Not being defeated by the Italians was a victory but the Austrians could never hope for a separate peace on account of a German invasion, the threat of which was very real as I recall. jonny:conf: