anschluss

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He asked a million questions — about her family, her apartment, the lifestyle, the intellectual circle she grew up in, the lead-up to the Anschluss and the atmosphere in Vienna in the 1930s.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2022

He began writing it four years before the Anschluss, so in a sense much of the main intellectual work had already done before his forced exile.

From Salon • Oct. 29, 2022

He declined to conduct during the Nuremberg rallies, but was satisfied to appear just before them — including, in 1938, with the forces of the Vienna State Opera, immediately after the Anschluss.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2021

After the Anschluss, her family fled to Belgium, then to England and finally to the United States.

From Washington Post • Aug. 23, 2019

Furthermore, the treaty forbade an Anschluss, or “union,” between Austria and Germany, even though a large population of ethnic Germans lived in Austria.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti