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What is Anschluss?

What is Anschluss? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
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Following the Anschluss, the Germans quickly extended anti-Jewish legislation to Austria.
Sound or not, Kennedy became ambassador in 1938, the year that Germany marched into Austria to create the Anschluss.
The next month, Germany carried out the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria.
On 13 March 1938, the Anschluss of Austria was officially declared.
Similarly, in Ukraine, we thought that the urge to conquer territory to place compatriots under our flag had gone out with Hitler, Sudetenland and the Austrian Anschluss.
With the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, Austrian Rroma soon followed and were sent to camps such as Dachau, Buchenwald, Ravensbrück and Mathausen.

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