So determined were the Allies that Germany—and only Germany—should accept total responsibility for the war, that Austria was exempted from accountability, despite the fact that Austrians were as gung ho about Nazism as their German counterparts. In both countries, about 10 percent of the population were official party members, and there were still 536,000 registered Nazis in Austria at the end of the war. A total of 1.2 million Austrians, from a population of just under 7 million, had served in German units during the war. Judt pointed out that “Austrians had been disproportionately
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