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Austrians called themselves Germans up to First World War. There's no much difference between them culturally, from language to cuisine. But, ethnically they differ much from, lets say, people in Mecklenburg or Schleswig. We can even ask are North Germans same as Jylland Danes?
But Austrians have been way cunninger than Germans - they made world believe Hitler is German and Beethoven Austrian and they've been neutral quite lot.