1938 CE: ANSCHLUSS

Vienna: Mar 11–12: sellout

The Austrian Nazi Party (Austrian National Socialist Party) seized control of neighboring Austrian state institutions on March 11, and on March 12 “officially” transferred control of Austria to Germany. German troops immediately entered Austria to prop–up the canard. A manipulated plebiscite was held “ratifying” (by 99.73 percent) the incorporation. Nazi Germany then “officially” annexed Austria.

Having ceased to exist as an independent nation for the duration of the Nazi regime, after WWII only a Provisional Austrian Government was set up (in 1945). It would not be until 1995, fifty seven years after the Anschluss, that Austria would regain full sovereignty.