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Since 1945 neither the Germans nor the Austrians have been at all keen on unification.
Hitler can probably seen as the direct cause for World War 2. One of the main items of his Nazi party was that Germany had been punished to hard by the Allies in the First World War. He wanted to set things right. This is why a lot of Germans voted for him. The following actions like strengthening the German forces and deploying an army in the French-German border were merely used to see how far he could go. Certain sources believe that Hitler thought the annexation of Poland would not lead to the Second World War yet, but the Allies kept their ultimatum and declared war. In the end you could say that Hitler's actions did contribute to World War 2 a lot, but that he could never had so much influence on it if the German civilians hadn't been supporting him.