What the records say
- When
- 13 Mar 1938
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 47.59° N, 14.14° E
- Government
- Germany
- Former government
- Austria
- History
- In an annexation known as the Anschluss, Germany annexed Austria, a country which was predominantly ethnically German. As Hitler wrote in Mein Kampf, "one bl…
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Anschluss
1938 annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany
The Anschluss, also known as the Anschluß Österreichs, was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
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2 sources record it
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
- COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War Project · names it “Austria → Germany (annexation)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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