anschluss

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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

It reminds me much more of Adolf Hitler’s ethno-nationalist fixation, extreme nationalist grievances and “salami” tactics: remilitarization of the Rhineland, Anschluss with Austria, the Sudetenland crisis, occupation of Czechoslovakia’s remains, invasion of Poland.

From Washington Post

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

It says everything about this show’s lack of focus that I learned more about one artist’s family than I did about Hugo Simon, who left the Pechstein landscape behind when he fled to Brazil; about Alphonse Kann, separated from that large Cézanne bather and little Picasso; about Oscar Bondy, the Viennese industrialist whose Strozzi was stolen in the wake of the Anschluss.

From New York Times