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

His father died young; in 1938, when Rudi was 16, he and his mother immigrated to California six months after the Nazi Anschluss.

From Washington Post • Mar. 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

Now it’s the Anschluss, and now Poland falls, and now France.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood