USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The next day, March 12, 1938, German troops entered Austria, and one day later, Austria was incorporated into Germany. This union, known as the Anschluss, received the enthusiastic support of most of the Austrian population and was retroactively approved via a plebiscite in April 1938.

Detailed explanation-2: -Subsequently, the Anschluss of the Third German Reich and Germany-Austria occurred in 1938, reuniting both countries for the first time since the 1870s. Austria became Ostmark (Eastern Region) under Hitler’s regime.

Detailed explanation-3: -Austria existed as a federal state of Germany until the end of World War II, when the Allied powers declared the Anschluss void and reestablished an independent Austria.

Detailed explanation-4: -On April 10, 1938, Austrians were asked whether they supported the March 13 Anschluss. 99.75% of voters said that they supported Germany’s annexation of Austria into the Third Reich.

Detailed explanation-5: -To include Austria in the new empire would have made it impossible for the Prussian crown to control the new empire. So Bismarck deliberately excluded Austria from the new empire in order to ensure that the Prussian crown could control the new empire.