Word: anschluss
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact that both countries retain their sovereighty and separate political entity. However, many Germans and Austrians, remembering how the Prussian customs union helped to unite Germany politically into the German Empire, now hail this alliance as the first step toward a political union in the future; but such an "Anschluss" would need the consent of the League of Nations, which France and her satellites would almost certainly block...
...states, one with a population of two states, one with a population of about sixteen million and the other nine million, cannot but be regarded with concern by all those nations who regard the balance of power in Europe as assured by the present arrangement. The proposed "anschluss" between Germany and Austria, which has been talked of at irregular intervals since the war, and which reached its highest point in 1928 at the famous Schubert Sanger Fest in Vienna provided an excellent example of what this sort of thing may lead to. At that time the French government became more...
Next day, however, Grand Master Oscar went to Vienna for an Anschluss* festival, reviewed a parade of Austria's illegal but flourishing reactionary army, the Heimwehr...
...Anschluss: the ideal of Austro-German federation, jealously advocated by potent factions in both countries...