Proper noun
German-Austria
(historical) A country created following World War I as the initial rump state for areas with a predominantly German-speaking population within what had been the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Likewise, Keynes said Austria would now be consigned to "industrial ruin" as "nearly all the coalfields of the former Empire lie outside of what is now German-Austria ".sfn Campbell writes that the "apparent majority did not regard the treaty as perfect". Source: Internet