> I'd imagine Austrian history classes simply stops in 1866 Nope, it goes all the way through WW1, Austro-Fascism to fascism and WW2 but didn't reach the prese

> I'd imagine Austrian history classes simply stops in 1866 Nope, it goes all the way through WW1, Austro-Fascism to fascism and WW2 but didn't reach the present IIRC. The Austrian Empire lost a lot (most?) of the wars it was involved in, but that didn't keep it from being taught, albeit in a, as you wrote, decorated fashion