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Step-by-step explanation:
In the middle of the war a high ranking German general likened being allied to Austria Hungary to being fettered to a corpse. They were as ineffectual in WW1 as Italy was in WW2, in fact Italy was the only country AH was effective against, it was a hodgepodge of different people's and languages, and nationalism was more important than the Empire to many who were fighting for it.