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  2. 1938 Austrian Anschluss referendum - Wikipedia

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    The Austrian government had planned a referendum to assert its sovereignty for 13 March 1938, but Germany invaded Austria the day before in order to prevent the vote taking place. Political enemies (communists, socialists, etc.) and Austrian citizens of Roma or Jewish origin—roughly 360,000 people or 8% of the Austrian population—were not ...

  3. Anschluss - Wikipedia

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    The word Anschluss had been widespread before 1938 describing an incorporation of Austria into Germany. Calling the incorporation of Austria into Germany an "Anschluss," that is a "unification" or "joinder", was also part of the propaganda used in 1938 by Nazi Germany to create the impression that the union was not coerced.

  4. 1938 German parliamentary election and referendum - Wikipedia

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    Parliamentary elections were held in Germany (including recently annexed Austria) on 10 April 1938. [1] They were the final elections to the Reichstag during Nazi rule and took the form of a single-question referendum asking whether voters approved of a single list of Nazi and pro-Nazi guest candidates for the 814-member Reichstag, [2] as well as the recent annexation of Austria.

  5. Austria within Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Edmund Glaise-Horstenau was an Austrian officer in the Austro-Hungarian Army, last Vice-Chancellor of Austria before the 1938 Anschluss, a military historian, archivist, and general in the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War. The Austrian gauleiters Hugo Jury, Franz Hofer and Friedrich Rainer also participated in Nazi crimes.

  6. Kurt Schuschnigg - Wikipedia

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    Kurt Alois Josef Johann von Schuschnigg [a] (German: [ˈʃʊʃnɪk]; 14 December 1897 – 18 November 1977) was an Austrian politician who was the Chancellor of the Federal State of Austria from the 1934 assassination of his predecessor Engelbert Dollfuss until the 1938 Anschluss with Nazi Germany.

  7. Austria victim theory - Wikipedia

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    The term "the first victim of Germany", as applied to Austria, first appeared in English-speaking journalism in 1938, before the beginning of the Anschluss. [30] Shortly before the outbreak of the war in 1939, the writer Paul Gallico - himself of partly Austrian origin - published the novel The Adventures of Hiram Holliday, part of which is set in post-Anschluss Austria and depicts an Austrian ...

  8. Austria–Germany relations - Wikipedia

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    Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, born in Austria, annexed the country into Germany with the Anschluss in 1938. After 1936, Hitler and Mussolini forged a closer relationship in preparation for Germany's expansionist ambitions. Hitler used the Nazi Party of Austria to influence public opinions and staged a coup against the Austrian Fascist government in ...

  9. 1938 in Austria - Wikipedia

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    March 12 – Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation is declared the following day. In a result, the Austrian electorate in a national referendum approved Anschluss by an 99.73%. July – The Mauthausen concentration camp is built.

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