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"Anschluss" was the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany directly prior to WWII.

The reasoning behind it was due to "pan-German" ideology, i.e. a belief that promoted the unification of the Germanic peoples (i.e. Germans, Austrians, Dutch, English, Scandinavians, etc...) under a single empire.

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