Word: anschlussed
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From that moment on, the treaty was ready for signature. Its main provisions: ¶ Restore Austrian independence by promising to withdraw the 60,000 occupation troops "within ninety days"; ¶ Establish Austria's boundaries as they were on Jan. 1, 1938. and forbid another Anschluss with Germany; ¶ Respect Austria's territorial integrity. Additionally, the Big Four are expected to promise to "recognize and observe" Austria's neutrality...
...presumably allow the Russians to march back on the pretext that Germany was threatening an Anschluss. But in the joy of the moment, such considerations were ignored. Thousands of Austrians flocked to the airport to welcome the triumphant travelers. For the first time since Hitler marched in in 1938, Austria was within sight of a time without a foreign soldier on its soil. Cheering crowds lined the 20-mile route to Vienna, crowded the square outside the chancellery. Twice, Raab had to come out and speak. Some in the crowd wept, and Chancellor Raab's voice broke with emotion...
...When the Credit Anstalt, the family's Vienna bank and Central Europe's biggest financial house, failed in 1931, Rothschild handed over $10 million of his private fortune to the Austrian government to help cover losses. Held for a year by the Gestapo after Hitler's Anschluss, he was released after payment of a $21 million "ransom...
April 1, 2000 is largely a symposium of Austrian history, art and culture, proving that the country, once having saved the West from the Turks, continued to save it from boredom and spiritual blight. The word "Anschluss" is missing from the historic review. But it is really quite a bit to ask that motion picture history be both entertaining and accurate. In the present case it is fairly amusing...
Chancellor Raab spunkily rebuffed the charges. He denied, for example, that veterans' leagues were getting out of hand and agitating for Anschluss (reunion with Germany); he admitted that anti-Soviet literature and posters might be circulating in the Soviet zone, but disavowed it on behalf of the government and police. He was backed up by his Cabinet and by nearly every member of the Parliament...