anschluss

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What had been until then a loving portrait of Austrian Jewish bourgeois society in the years before the Anschluss — the play begins in 1899 and will follow the family through 1955 — becomes, as the Nazis enter not just the Merzes’ homeland but their home, a portrait of that society’s self-delusion.

From New York Times

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

From Washington Post

Mr. Nitsch was born in Vienna on Aug. 29, 1938, the year of the Nazi annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss.

From Washington Post

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