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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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I think I can claim to have discovered the Anschluss, or at least to have been the first to formulate the idea clearly.
Mr President, the separatist formation of Transnistria recently conducted a self-styled referendum to approve the idea of Anschluss of this part of Moldova into the Russian Federation.
Sound or not, Kennedy became ambassador in 1938, the year that Germany marched into Austria to create the Anschluss.
Following a play-off match against Latvia, Austria had officially qualified for the final round but because of the Anschluss in April 1938 did not feel that they could attend.
That was the year of the coming together of Germany and Austria, the Anschluss, which was actually, of course, a takeover of Austria by Germany.
The standard tripartite model placed most of the population of Hitler's Germany in the Alpine category, especially after the Anschluss.

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