Anchsluss Flashcards
What was the Anchsluss
The union between Germany and Austria
What happened to Germany and Austrias treatment after the war and Versailles
Germany was heavily punished at the Versailles settlement, but at the Treaty of St-Germain, Austria was spared. They were reduced to a very small state, with their whole empire taken away and new independent states created, but they received no great punishment. They were left largely under the care and supervision of Italy.
What was Article 80 of the ToV
Banning the joining together of Germany and Austria. There was to be no Anschluss, no creation of a ‘Greater Germany’. The Pan-German dream seemed to have died.
Who were pan Germans
movement whose goal was the political unification of all people speaking German or a Germanic language
How come the pan german dream did not entirely disappear?
There were plenty of people, like Hitler, who still believed the day would come when all Germans would be united into one state
What did hitler state in mein kampf about what he believed about the anchsluss
German Austria must be restored to the great German motherland. And not for economic reasons at all. No, no. Even if the union caused no economic gains, or even if it were to be a disadvantage, it should still take place. People of the same blood ought to be in the same
Reich. The German people will have no right to look for colonies overseas until they have brought all their children in Europe together in one state.
What happened when Hitler came to power in 1933 in regards to the Anchsluss
When Hitler came to power in January 1933, Pan Germans must have had great hopes that, under Hitler, their dream of a united German state would soon become a reality. In fact, inside Austria, some Austrian Nazis were so convinced that an Anschluss was about to
happen, that in 1934 they attempted to start one by murdering the Austrian Chancellor Dollfuss, believing that Germany would then charge in and take over Austria.
