Anschluss
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- noun
- /ˈɑːnʃlʊs/
- Formal
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Anschluss
- His father, a chemist, was a Jew; at the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Germany in 1938, the elder Simmel fled to London.
- Anschluss, the annexation
Examples
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Hitler has visited the city twice since the Anschluss, once at the time of the election which was to approve union with Germany; a second time secretly to see how reconstruction of the town was progressing.
Blog text (12) -
The Anschluss in 1938 marked the beginning of Austria's incorporation into Nazi Germany.
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But the Anschluss happened peacefully.
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The clinic was taken over from two Jewish doctors after the Anschluss.
Fiction book (1991) -
The reader should have no doubts about the popularity of Anschluss with Germany.
Blog text (12) -
Churchill is quite plain that a critical moment in diplomatic history in the '30s was the Anschluss.
Blog text (25) -
Austria had a long history of anti-Semitism even before the Anschluss, the 1938 annexation by Nazi Germany.
Academic text (2008) -
Spurred by the ecstatic welcome, Hitler proclaimed the Anschluss—annexation—of his native Austria, reducing it to a province of greater Germany.
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Many Austrians supported the Anschluss, believing it would bring economic benefits.
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The political climate in Europe drastically changed after the Anschluss, with rising tensions across the continent.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Anschluss became the name for the 1938 political 'joining' of Austria with Germany. The German word literally means a 'connection' (from an- 'to' and schließen 'to close', like English 'close'), so the word shows Austria was made part of Germany.