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
The Anschluss was the 1938 annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, in which Hitler declared Austria part of the German Reich. It matters historically because it was one of the first major expansionist moves by Nazi Germany and violated international agreements that had prohibited such a union after World War I.
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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
The ' (, or , ), also known as the ' (, ), was the annexation of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
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