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  2. Anschluss - Wikipedia

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    Hitler crosses the border into Austria in March 1938. Hitler announces the Anschluss on the Heldenplatz, Vienna, 15 March 1938. On the morning of 12 March 1938, the 8th Army of the German Wehrmacht crossed the border into Austria. The troops were greeted by cheering Austrians with Nazi salutes, Nazi flags, and flowers.

  3. Austria within Nazi Germany - Wikipedia

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    Austria, Germany, and the Cold War: from the Anschluss to the State Treaty 1938–1955. New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 978-1-84545-326-8. Uhl, Heidemarie (1997). "Austria's Perception of the Second World War and the National Socialist Period". Austrian Historical Memory and National Identity. Transactionpublishers. pp. 64–94. ISBN 9781412817691.

  4. Allied-occupied Austria - Wikipedia

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    Austria's military significance had been largely devalued by the end of the Soviet-Yugoslav conflict and the upcoming signing of the Warsaw Pact. [103] These fears did not materialize, and Raab's visit to Moscow (12–15 April) was a breakthrough. Moscow agreed that Austria would be free no later than 31 December.

  5. Occupation of Czechoslovakia (1938–1945) - Wikipedia

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    The Four-Year Plan that Hitler had launched in September 1936 to have the German economy ready for a "total war" by 1940 had seriously strained the German economy by 1937 as German government was forced to use up its foreign exchange reserves both to feed its own people and to import various raw materials to achieve the ambitious armament goals ...

  6. Austrian resistance - Wikipedia

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    Following the German annexation of Austria, Otto (who had been allowed to come back to Austria to publicly campaign against the Anschluss), was sentenced to death by the Nazi regime; Rudolf Hess ordered that Otto was to be executed immediately if caught, as ordered by Adolf Hitler. [27]

  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. South Tyrol Option Agreement - Wikipedia

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    A flyer from the group of German-speakers who voted for staying in South Tyrol (Andreas Hofer Bund)The South Tyrol Option Agreement (German: Option in Südtirol; Italian: Opzioni in Alto Adige) was an agreement in effect between 1939 and 1943, when the native German and Ladin-speaking people in South Tyrol and several other municipalities of northern Italy, which had belonged to the Austrian ...

  9. Austria–Italy relations - Wikipedia

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    Austria took the issue to the United Nations in 1960. A fresh round of negotiations took place, which lead to a more extensive statute of autonomy for South Tyrol in 1972. In 1992, Austria declared the disagreement to be fully resolved. [12] Austrian Interior Minister Herbert Kickl said on June 5, 2018 that Italy is a strong ally of Austria. [13]