Premise: Anschluss (] 'joining') is the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. The word's German spelling, until the German orthography reform of 1996, was Anschluß and it was also known as the Anschluss Österreichs (   , German: "Austrian Annexation" ).
Hypothesis: Austria and Germany share a common history before Anschluss .