MOST Americans who have heard of the great dispute about the Anschluss of German Austria with the German mother-country have ranged themselves on the side of those who favor this union. They have ...

“Anschluss” (union) of Germany and Austria was officially proclaimed from the upper balcony of the Chancellery in Vienna. The Austrian people will vote on the union by plebiscite on April 10.

On the eve of the Anschluss – the 1938 unification of Austria with Germany via annexation by Adolf Hitler – some 170,000 Jews plus 80,000 people of mixed Jewish-Christian background lived in ...

The exhibition goes by the self-explanatory and emotive title of Torn from Life – The Fate of the Austrian Jews after the Anschluss in 1938 and was curated by Yad Vashem Museum Division ...

Austria's Dr. Karl Renner, the veteran Social Democrat whom Russia had placed in power, last week resigned as Chancellor. ... Figl had played a minor role in pre-Anschluss politics.

Julian Borger traced his father's escape from post-Anschluss Austria via the Kindertransport by examining classifieds in The Guardian. He unravels that and similar stories in a new memoir ...

The Anschluss (the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938) was welcomed by many Austrians; they believe that Germany would rescue the county from high unemployment and poverty.

You might know it as the backdrop for the famous film the Sound of Music, but how did Nazi Germany execute its Anschluss, or 'joining' with Austria in 1938?