Word: anschluss
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...German recovery caused Saarlanders to look wistfully across the Rhine. West Germans revived the old slogan, Deutsch ist die Saar (The Saar is German), and began talking of another Anschluss. Paris was horrified; the French government vowed that it would never ratify EDC and German rearmament until Bonn promised never to take back the Saar into a German Reich. France's main reason: with the Saar, which now produces 28% of France's coal and 25% of its steel, French heavy industry can compete with West Germany's Ruhr; without it, French production would be hopelessly outmatched...
...many years before World War II, Joda Isenbart was a contented kosher meat dealer in Vienna. Then came the Anschluss, which joined Austria's voice to that of Germany in Hitler's hymn of hate against the Jews. Joda and his family were sent from one concentration camp to another. All of their relatives were killed, but somehow or other. Joda, his wife and their three children survived. When the nightmare was over at last, Joda, like a million of his kind, raised his eyes from the ashes of his ruined life and his ruined world, toward Israel...
...Nazis "peacefully," by organized sabotage and propaganda. After four years, Hitler stopped Von Papen's slow choke with the velvet glove and swung his iron fist. Although he says Hitler had promised him not to use force in Austria, Von Papen shared the "general intoxication" of the Anschluss and was awarded the Gold Medal of the Nazi Party for his efforts...
...world into a coalition against Germanism. And we shall crush Germany for at least two centuries." What irked the Italians most was that they were treated as silent partners of the Axis, and only called in when matters reached the sign-on-the-dotted-line stage. After the Austrian Anschluss, "the Duce was in a mood of irritation with the Germans . . . they ought to have given us warning-but not a word." Just before Munich, Ciano notes: "The Duce is disturbed by the fact that the Germans are letting us know almost nothing of their program with regard to Czechoslovakia...
...semimilitary, anti-Jewish, anti-Catholic and anti-Masonic organization that was formed in 1951. The jailed leaders: Hermann Lamp, an unreconstructed ex-SS sergeant; Helmuth Beck-Broichsitter, onetime major in the Grossdeutschland Division, who is also the chairman of a strutting veterans' organization called Bruderschaft; Alfred Frauenfeld, pre-Anschluss Nazi leader in Vienna; Eberhard Hawranke, ex-Brownshirt...