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1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany

The Anschluss (German:[ˈʔanʃlʊs]^ⓘ, or Anschluß,^[1][a]lit. 'joining' or 'connection'), also known as the Anschluß Österreichs (pronunciation^ⓘ, English: Annexation of Austria), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into the German Reich on 12 March 1938.^[2]

The idea of an Anschluss (a united Austria and Germany that would form a "Greater Germany")^[b] arose after the 1871 unification of Germany excluded Austria and the German Austrians from the Prussian-dominated German Empire.

It gained support after the Austro-Hungarian Empire fell in 1918. The new Republic of German-Austria attempted to form a union with Germany, but the 1919 Treaty of Saint Germain and Treaty of Versailles forbade both the union and the continued use of the name "German-Austria" (Deutschösterreich); they also stripped Austria of some of its territories, such a