马修家的人写的书，主要探讨米英两国从38年起到55年对贵族的态度，只看了第一章，暂时的感觉是很合口味。第一章主要是讲WW1后半死不活（……）没人要的贵族和独奥合并后米英各自对此的模糊态度，看得只想吐糟这个强抢民女（……）的口气是想怎样啊……（你够了
以下是一些摘录/吐糟/脑补:
 
Austria became "ce qui reste," the state nobody wanted, a country little more than a "pathetic relic," according to the British historian Elizabeth Barker.
——最喜欢这样既不想活，又死不掉，还没人要的贵族啦！每次看都有一种抖M的快感

After 1919 many observers pronounced Austria a nonviable economic unit that could limp along only through the infusion of continued Allied support. A great deal of external aid, mainly from Great Britain and the United States, flowed into Austria, while the League of Nations virtually controlled the country's finances until 1926.
——虽然某书上将这段形容为人工呼吸，但这也太那什么啦俺只要脑补输血就够了（自重
不过呼吸机贵族真的很（ry……
 
[Social Democrats, Christian Socials and German Nationalists] each party had its own vision of Anschluss with Germany as a way out of current impasses. Austrian Socialists dreamed of union with their left-wing German brethren in an enlarged, German-speaking, socialist republic encompassing Germany and Austria. Christian Socials envisaged a fusion with their German conservative and Catholic Centre Party counterparts. Pan Germans favoured unification with Germany's nationalists.
——那什么，一家一共三派人，三派人全想着求包养，所以还真是彻底没救了（扶额

In sum, the modest Swiss model which the Allies had urges the Austrians to emulate remained unattractive to socialist, conservative, and nationalist groups, all of which viewed the Austrian Republic as a decadent, weak, boring structure, lacking historical roots and devoid of any future. ... Indeed, after World War I the pupulation of Vorarlberg voted to join Switzerland, while only 2 per cent in Salzburg and 8 per cent in Tyrol voted to join a new and independent Austria.
——单知道幺儿福拉尔贝格打着包裹就想往瓦修家赶，倒是没想到盐堡和蒂罗尔小朋友居然也有这么低的票...

"The people of Britain," [Churchill] intoned resoundingly, "will never desert the cause of the freedom of Austria from the Prussian yoke." It was indicative of Churchill's heavily historical perspective that he still interpreted the struggle against the Nazis in terms of the war against the Germans of the Second Empire, who had all been subsumed by propaganda under the term "Prussians".
——这也太冤枉了，不由脑补如下：

“奥地利是英国为其自由而拔剑的第一个国家。英国人民绝不会放弃从普鲁士的压迫下解救奥地利，使其重获自由的！”
“混蛋眉毛你打我作甚，强抢了民女的是我弟弟啊！！！”
（被揍死了


还有一段：

“虽然我是奥地利驻美公使，但现在我的国家已经不存在了...怎么办？”
“你放心，H ERO会做出合适的调整的。”

调整就是：
把驻维也纳公使馆降格为隶属于柏林的领事馆，然后拍着路德的肩膀说：“奥地利交给你了，奥地利的外债也交给你了。行啦，得了好处，怎么能不负责任呢……”
（所以说什么叫take the burdens with the benefits啊你们...


另外在看前言的时候觉得，更加喜欢揆姑娘那篇独奥里的设定啦，自己杀死自己的设定虽然在WW1之后也可以脑补，但果然还是WW2之后，对过去的记忆抹杀更为彻底啊……