Why did Austria join Germany?
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Anschluss (German: [ˈʔanʃlʊs] ( listen) "joining") refers to the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938. ... The desire for a union formed an integral part of the Nazi "Heim ins Reich" movement to bring ethnic Germans outside Nazi Germany into Greater Germany.