1938 in Austria

thumb|upright|Austrian citizens gather on the Heldenplatz to hear Hitler's declaration of annexation. thumb|upright|right|Territory of the Nazi Germany|German Reich and Austria before the Anschluss

' ( ) or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s)' (, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation from the Hitler Youth and German civilians throughout Nazi Germany on 9–10 November 1938. The German authorities looked on without intervening. The euphemistic name comes from the shards of broken glass that littered the streets after the windows of Jewish-owned stores, buildings, and synagogues were smashed. The pretext for the attacks was the assassination, on 9 November 1938, of the German dipl

vote held in German-occupied Austria and in Nazi Germany regarding the annexation of Austria

Ideology that Austria was an involuntary victim of Nazism