Definition of "Anschluss"

Anschluss

/ˈan.ʃlʊs/

noun
uncountable
1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
  Quotations
  ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
  1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44
  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.
  2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak