Anschluss | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-06-17

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00:01:49 1 Historical background
00:05:01 1.1 Austria during the First Austrian Republic 1918–1934
00:07:55 1.2 Nazi Germany and Austria
00:12:46 1.3 Austrian Civil War to iAnschluss/i
00:19:36 2 End of an independent Austria
00:23:12 2.1 Schuschnigg announces a referendum
00:27:51 2.2 German troops march into Austria
00:33:52 3 Actions against the Jews
00:36:21 4 Plebiscite
00:38:27 5 Banking and assets
00:39:02 6 Reactions to the iAnschluss/i
00:44:16 7 Legacy
00:44:25 7.1 iAnschluss/i: annexation or union?
00:45:49 7.2 Changes in Central Europe
00:48:08 7.3 Second Republic
00:48:18 7.3.1 Moscow Declaration
00:51:22 7.3.2 Austrian identity and the "victim theory"
00:54:10 7.3.3 Political events
00:56:59 7.3.4 Literature
00:57:55 7.4 Historical Commission and outstanding legal issues
01:01:43 8 Austrian political and military leaders in Nazi Germany
01:01:56 9 See also



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Anschluss (German: [ˈʔanʃlʊs] (listen) "joining") refers to 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 (pronunciation , English: Annexation of Austria).
Prior to the Anschluss, there had been strong support from people of all backgrounds – not just Nazis – in both Austria and Germany for a union of the two countries. The desire for a union formed an integral part of the Nazi "Heim ins Reich" movement to bring ethnic Germans outside Nazi Germany into Greater Germany. Earlier, Nazi Germany had provided support for the Austrian National Socialist Party (Austrian Nazi Party) in its bid to seize power from Austria's Fatherland Front government.
The idea of an Anschluss (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "Greater Germany") began after the unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire in 1871. Following the end of World War I with the fall of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, in 1918, the newly formed Republic of German-Austria attempted to form a union with Germany, but the Treaty of Saint Germain (10 September 1919) and the Treaty of Versailles (28 June 1919) forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria" (Deutschösterreich); and stripped Austria of some of its territories, such as the Sudetenland.