Eighty four years ago on March 12, 1938, Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In January 1933, Germany’s Jews were already under the grip of Nazism with the rise of the Nazi party, and just five years ...

“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.

A vibrant city of poets, artists and thinkers in the early 1900s, it went down in a sea of swastikas after Hitler's triumphant return: Vienna after the Anschluss lost not only many of its people, but ...

The Nation watches in horror as Hitler takes his first step down "the road to world empire." Crowds cheer the Nazis as they arrive in Vienna, Austria. Photo via the German Federal Archive. By signing ...

14 March 1938: the Guardian reports on the annexation of Austria into the German Reich Austria was last night officially proclaimed a “State of the German Reich.” The Anschluss has been brought into ...

The Theology Faculty of the University of Innsbruck was closed down by the Nazis on 22 July 1938. The closure was the final act in a long succession of chicanery that had begun on March 12, the day of ...

Seventy-five years ago Tuesday, Nazi Germany annexed neighboring Austria in the “Anschluss,” a long-held dream of Chancellor Adolf Hitler and many others, including non-Nazis, in the two ...