Why was Austria considered the "first victim of Nazism" when a vast majority appeared to enthusiastically welcome Anschluss?

by mercurial_zephyr
kieslowskifan

Not to discourage further answers, but you might want to check out this answer from myself and /u/commiespaceinvader . The long and the short of it was that Austria was able to parlay Allied declarations claiming Austria as a victim to prevent any intensive denazification and really disengage with the Nazi past to an even greater extent than the postwar German states.