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Literally "annexation", by convention,the '''Anschluss'' was  the March 1938 Nazi takeover of [[Austria]] by measures short of full-scale war. Austria, the birthplace of [[Adolf Hitler]], was always a goal of Nazi [[Pan-German nationalism]] The process accelerated with the Austro-German Agreement of July 1936, with a secret annex that gave additional power to the Austrian Nazis.  They steadily increased subversion and [[terrorism]] throughout 1937, and Austrian police captured documents indicating they planned to stage a revolt in the spring of 1938, which could provide a pretext for German intervention.
'''Anschluß''' (or '''Anschluss''') is the German word for "unification". It is the specific term for the formal annexation by [[Nazi Germany]] of Austria, then a federal state, into the Third Reich on 13 March 1938. The Nazis chose the title for [[propaganda]] purposes to recast coerced annexation as peaceful joinder. The union is also called the ''Anschluß Österreichs''.


Former German Chancellor [[Fritz von Papen]] had been a special representative to Austrian Chancellor, [[Kurt von Schuschnigg]]. Von Papen revealed that one of the captured documents had called for his own killing by German agents, again as a pretext for intervention. Ironically, von Papen had escaped death in the [[Night of the Long Knives]] purge in 1934. [[Hans Lammers]] informed him, on 4 February, that he was fired, along with [[Constantin von Neurath]] and others. Von Papen began keeping hidden copies of his correspondence with Hitler. <ref name=S>{{citation
| author = William Shirer
| title = The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
| publisher = Simon & Schuster
| year = 1960}}, pp. 322-324</ref>
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Anschluß (or Anschluss) is the German word for "unification". It is the specific term for the formal annexation by Nazi Germany of Austria, then a federal state, into the Third Reich on 13 March 1938. The Nazis chose the title for propaganda purposes to recast coerced annexation as peaceful joinder. The union is also called the Anschluß Österreichs.

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