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Anschluss

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English

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Etymology

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From German Anschluss (annexation) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (to join, unite).

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Anschluss (uncountable)

  1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
    • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:
      ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
    • 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:
      Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.
    • 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:
      Anton Kuh [] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.
    • 2025 October 25, Mercedes Ruehl, “Lunch with the FT: Sebastian Kurz”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      Not far from where we are sitting is Heldenplatz, where in March 1938 Adolf Hitler addressed a cheering crowd to proclaim the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, in defiance of the post-first world war treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain.

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German

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Deverbal from anschließen.

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Noun

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Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

  1. connection, joining
  2. annexation
  3. (historical) Anschluss
  4. contact

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Polish

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.

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Proper noun

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Anschluss m inan

  1. (historical, Nazism) alternative spelling of anszlus

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