History of Europe

When did Austria lose land to Germany and Italy?

After World War I, the Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919) required Austria to cede territory to the Kingdom of Italy and the newly created states of Czechoslovakia and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (Yugoslavia). Austria lost South Tyrol, the Küstenland (except the city of Fiume, which became the independent state of Fiume and was annexed by Italy in 1924), and the canal zone around Tarvisio to Italy; and the provinces of Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia to Czechoslovakia; and the duchies of Carinthia and Carniola as well as parts of Styria to the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

After the Anschluss in 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany and thus ceased to exist as an independent state until the end of World War II in Europe in May 1945. After World War II, the Republic of Austria was re-established within its 1938 borders.