Anschluss

[ ahn-shloos ]

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noun

union, especially the political union of Austria with Germany in 1938.

Origin of Anschluss

1920–25; <German: consolidation, joining together, equivalent to an- on, to + Schluss a closing

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How to use Anschluss in a sentence

Had she likened Russian action in Ukraine to the Nazi Anschluss?
What the D-Day Veteran Told Obama at the 70th Anniversary Commemoration | Christopher Dickey | June 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
After the Russian Anschluss in Crimea last week, people around the world are asking themselves uneasily: How far will Moscow go?
Putin’s Dream of Empire Doesn’t Stop at Crimea, Or Even Ukraine | Oleg Shynkarenko | March 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Sound or not, Kennedy became ambassador in 1938, the year that Germany marched into Austria to create the Anschluss.
“The Patriarch”: Joseph Kennedy Sr.’s Outsized Life | Jacob Heilbrunn | November 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST
The word "Anschluss" seems hardly to imply so complete a union as was afterwards aimed at by the German party in Vienna.
The Revolutionary Movement of 1848-9 in Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Germany | C. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice

British Dictionary definitions for Anschluss

Anschluss

/ (ˈænʃlʊs) /

noun

a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)

Origin of Anschluss

German: from anschliessen to join

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