anschluss

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Other questions have arisen about what happened to the artwork during the Anschluss, when Austria was annexed into the Third Reich.

From New York Times • Apr. 22, 2024

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

Life for the Freud family became intensely difficult after Nazi Germany annexed Austria in the Anschluss of 1938.

From Washington Post • Jun. 7, 2022

“Just whistle a happy tune,” she wrote, “and leave the Anschluss behind.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 23, 2021

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