Anschluss

See also: Anschluß

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈan.ʃlʊs/

Noun

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 2004, page 44:

     ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

   • 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.

Translations

the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy

• Arabic: آنْشْلُوس m (anšlūs)
• Belarusian: а́ншлю́с (ánšljús)
• Bulgarian: а́ншлус m (ánšlus)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 德奧合併／德奥合并, 德奥合并 (Dé-Ào hébìng) (specific to Austria), 合併／合并 (zh) (hébìng), 合并 (zh) (hébìng)

• Czech: anšlus m
• Danish: anschluss
• French: anschluss m
• Georgian: ანშლუსი (anšlusi)
• German: Anschluss (de) m, Anschluß (de) m (old spelling)
• Greek: Προσάρτηση της Αυστρίας f (Prosártisi tis Afstrías), Άνσλους n (Ánslous)
• Hebrew: אנשלוס
• Japanese: アンシュルス (anshurusu)
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• Macedonian: а́ншлус m (ánšlus)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: anschluss

• Polish: anszlus (pl) m, anschluss m
• Portuguese: Anschluss (pt) m
• Russian: а́ншлю́с (ru) m (ánšljús)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: а̀ншлӯс m

  Roman: ànšlūs (sh) m

• Slovak: anšlus m
• Ukrainian: а́ншлю́с m (ánšljús)

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German

Alternative forms

• Anschluß (superseded)

Etymology

From anschließen.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/

• Audio (Austria):

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Noun

Anschluss m (genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

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

Derived terms

• Anschlusskabel
• Anschlusstor
• Hauptanschluss
• Internetanschluss
• Kabelanschluss
• Nebenanschluss
• Telefonanschluss

 

Further reading

• “Anschluss” in Duden online