Word: anschlussed
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...York for four years; two were on the staff of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, and two were analysts for Standard Statistics before they came to TIME . . . One (a graduate economist) researched for the OPA in Washington-and one was a reporter in Europe from the Austrian Anschluss to the Polish invasion. Another came to us from the Sunday Express of Johannesburg, South Africa; another worked for the AP in Copenhagen until the Nazis came; still another ran a Wall Street investment office practically single-handed for two years . . . And our most erudite is an art and archeology graduate...
...Vienna during the tragic days of the Anschluss, when Hitler's tanks and troops paraded endlessly through the silent streets—had his bags Gestapoed at the hotel every day for four days running by a Himmler agent with the odd habit of leaving little chromium swastikas as calling cards...
...Berlin Symphony (before World War I), the Vienna Opera from 1908 to 1927, guest-conductor of the New York Philharmonic and New York Symphony. He taught at the famed Conservatory in Basle, directed the Vienna State Opera in 1935 and 1936. Later he chose exile in preference to Anschluss...
Austria. At his beloved Vienna, Hitler would hear from his Gauleiters about "joyous celebrations" on the fourth anniversary of the Anschluss. But if he took a bath in the Imperial Hotel, where he stayed in the spring of 1938, Hitler would have to dry himself with paper towels. Hotel owners can now be hanged as "traitors to the fatherland" unless they surrender all cloth towels. They are needed for bandages on the Russian front...
...newspaper experience turned out to be the least of his worries. Against stiff NBC competition-for NBC had been in the field for years and many Europeans thought it the official U.S. network-he and his friend Bill Shirer in Berlin ably handled the disintegrating events of 1938-Anschluss, Godesberg, Munich...