Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
A sham referendum on the Anschluss with Germany was held in German-occupied Austria on 10 April 1938, [1] alongside one in Germany. [2] German troops had already occupied Austria one month earlier, on 12 March 1938. The official result was reported as 99.73% in favour, [3] with a 99.71% turnout. [4]
The word Anschluss had been widespread before 1938 describing an incorporation of Austria into Germany. Calling the incorporation of Austria into Germany an "Anschluss," that is a "unification" or "joinder", was also part of the propaganda used in 1938 by Nazi Germany to create the impression that the union was not coerced.
Austria was part of Nazi Germany from 13 March 1938 (an event known as the Anschluss) until 27 April 1945, when Allied-occupied Austria declared independence from Nazi Germany. Nazi Germany's troops entering Austria in 1938 received the enthusiastic support of most of the population. [1]
12 March — Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria, which has a 200,000-strong Jewish population mostly in the capital city Vienna. 13 March — Annexation of Austria by Germany is declared. 10 April — German election and referendum, 1938
The 1938 rally celebrated the Anschluss—Germany's annexation of Austria—which occurred earlier that year. [3] The planned 1939 rally was cancelled due to Germany's invasion of Poland. Scheduled to begin on 2 September, this rally was ironically called the Reichsparteitag des Friedens, or "Rally of Peace."
The Federal State of Austria (Austrian German: Bundesstaat Österreich; colloquially known as the "Ständestaat") was a continuation of the First Austrian Republic between 1934 and 1938 when it was a one-party state led by the conservative, nationalist, corporatist and clerical fascist Fatherland Front.
Jews were systematically persecuted, plundered and killed by German and Austrian Nazis in the Holocaust from 1938 to 1945. [1] Pervasive persecution of Jews was immediate after the German annexation of Austria, known as the Anschluss. An estimated 70,000 Jews (nearly 40%) were murdered and 125,000 forced to flee Austria as refugees.
Hitler gave a speech to the Reichstag calling for new elections on April 10 as well as a referendum to approve the Anschluss. [26] The Bombing of Barcelona severely damaged the city and left as many as 1,300 people dead. Mexican President Lázaro Cárdenas nationalized the assets of 17 foreign oil companies. The U.S. and British governments ...