Anschluss
[ahn-shloo s]
- union, especially the political union of Austria with Germany in 1938.
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Origin of Anschluss
1920–25; < German: consolidation, joining together, equivalent to an- on, to + Schluss a closing
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After the Russian anschluss in Crimea last week, people around the world are asking themselves uneasily: How far will Moscow go?
Sound or not, Kennedy became ambassador in 1938, the year that Germany marched into Austria to create the Anschluss.
Historical Examples
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 GermanyC. Edmund (Charles Edmund) Maurice
Anschluss
- a political or economic union, esp the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany (1938)
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Word Origin
German: from anschliessen to join
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Word Origin and History for anschluss
n.
1924, from German Anschluß, "connection; addition; junction," literally "joining, union," from anschließen "to join, annex," from an "at, to, toward" + schließen "to shut, close, lock, bolt; contract" (a marriage); see slot (n.2). Specifically the proposal to unite Germany and Austria, accomplished in 1938.
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