HISTORY
WORLD WAR II
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Question
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Belgium
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Czechoslovakia
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Austria
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Poland
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Detailed explanation-1: -On March 11–13, 1938, German troops invade Austria and incorporate Austria into the German Reich in what is known as the Anschluss.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Wehrmacht drafted more than 1.3 million Austrians between 1938 and 1945, 242, 000 of whom never came back home. Austrians also served loyally as soldiers from Germany proper and were just as responsible for Nazi atrocities on the Eastern Front.
Detailed explanation-3: -Anschluss, German: “Union”, political union of Austria with Germany, achieved through annexation by Adolf Hitler in 1938.
Detailed explanation-4: -September 29–30, 1938: Germany, Italy, Great Britain, and France sign the Munich agreement, by which Czechoslovakia must surrender its border regions and defenses (the so-called Sudeten region) to Nazi Germany.
Detailed explanation-5: -After the Second World War, there has been no serious effort among the citizens or political parties to unite Germany and Austria. In addition, the Austrian State Treaty forbids such a union and the constitution required Austria’s neutrality.