anschluss 1938

• Anschluss


  1938
• Despite what had happened in 1934 regarding Anschluss with Austria, the Nazi Party remained committed to the union of Germany and Austria (which had been forbidden since the Treaty of Versailles in 1919)
• Anschluss


  1. German army entered Austria

  2. Opponents eliminated or put in concentration camps (approximately 80,000)

  3. Hitler gained control of the Austrian government

  4. Anschluss proclaimed
• Plebiscite held


  April 1938
• 99.75% of the population agreed to the Anschluss (which had already happened)
• Austria was now part of the Third Reich and Greater Germany
• Britain and France protested about what had happened but didn't stop it