Austria was under occupation.
Austria . In 1938 Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss . This lasted until the end of World War II in 1945 , after which Germany was occupied by the Allies and Austria 's former democratic constitution was restored . `` Austria -- the Nazis ' first victim '' -- a political slogan declared on the Moscow Conference in 1943 that became the ideological basis of Austria and national self-consciousness of Austrians during the periods of allied occupation of 1945-1955 and sovereign state of the Second Austrian Republic ( 1955 -- 1980s ) .