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11 unusual facts about Anschluss


1940 Coupe de France Final

For their part, Marseille included a "stateless" Austrian in the form of their winger, Donnerfeld (Austria having annexed by Germany in the Anschluss of 1938), together with a naturalised former German, centre forward Heiss, and a Hungarian, centre forward Eisenhoffer, a 40 year-old veteran.

ASK Voitsberg

During the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany between 1938 and 1945, the club name was changed to Grün-Weiß Krems Voitsberg and the team colours became green and white.

Chinese Righteous Among the Nations

He was appointed First Secretary at the Chinese legation in Vienna in 1937, and when Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1938 and the legation was turned into a consulate, Ho was assigned the post as Consul-General.

Class 15

In 1938 following the Anschluss of Austria for the Austrian Class 10 of the Federal Railway of Austria (BBÖ)

Edinburgh International Festival

The first Festival concentrated mainly on classical music, a highlight being concerts given by the Vienna Philharmonic, reunited with their erstwhile conductor Bruno Walter who had left Europe after the Nazi occupation of his homeland.

Fiat A.30

Before the war similarly powered CR.30s had been sold to the air forces of Austria, China and Paraguay, the Austrian aircraft ending their service with the Luftwaffe after the Anschluss.

Hubert Deutsch

His mother, Maria Deutsch, born in Vienna, was a most resourceful woman who, at the time of the “Anschluss” persuaded the Nazi authorities to let her husband free after having been taken under custody.

Karl Durspekt

After the Anschluss that united Germany and Austria in 1938 Admira played for several seasons in the Gauliga Ostmark, one of the top flight regional leagues created through the reorganization of German football under the Third Reich.

Michael Schnitzler

Michael Schnitzler was born to Austrian parents who fled from the country after the Anschluss in 1938.

Raiffeisen Zentralbank

In 1939, after the German annexation of Austria, the new German owners changed the name to Genossenschaftliche Zentralbank der Ostmark Aktiengesellschaft, and then in 1942 to Genossenschaftliche Zentralbank Wien Aktiengesellschaft.

Rixi Markus

In 1938, she fled Austria after German forces entered Vienna (the Anschluss).


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Alphons Barb

However, as was the case for all Jews operating as public servants at the time of the Anschluss, he was dismissed from his post and then required to leave Eisenstadt.

Arnold Karplus

With the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938, Arnold and Else Karplus moved to New York in 1939, following their son Gerhard and their daughter Ruth.

Bomlitz

Die früher bestehenden Eisenbahnverbindungen von Walsrode über Cordingen nach Bomlitz und von Walsrode über Cordingen und Jarlingen nach Visselhövede im Verlauf der Bahnstrecke Bremervörde–Walsrode sind mittlerweile eingestellt, Das Gleis nach Bomlitz ist weiterhin zum Anschluss des Industrieparks erhalten.

Brennschluss

In the 1950s, former German rocket engineer Willy Ley, who had emigrated before the Anschluss and hence never worked on the V-2 rocket, tried to get this term used by the English-speaking aerospace industry.

Eric Pleskow

After the Anschluss and the following Aryanization of their apartment, the family emigrated to the USA in 1938.

Gräfenberg Railway

Nachdem die Strecke am 1. Mai 1908 to Eschenau verlängert worden war, bestand Anschluss an die bereits am 12. November 1886 eröffnete Sekundärbahn Erlangen–Gräfenberg, die sogenannte „Seekuh“.

Greater German Reich

Nazi Germany, the official state name of which was "Greater German Reich" from 1943 to 1945 (also used informally after the 1938 Anschluss of Austria)

Hermann Neubacher

Neubacher became a member of the Nazi Party in Austria because he felt it was the best way to bring about Anschluss, although he was more in tune with the Anton Reinthaller-led moderate faction than the extremists under Theodor Habicht.

International Bruckner Society

The Society had officially been dissolved in 1938 immediately after the Anschluss (although publication of the complete edition continued from Leipzig).

Maltatal

After the Austrian Anschluss to Nazi Germany, beginning in 1941 the Malta Valley was the site of a labour camp where deported prisoners of war originating from the Soviet Union were forced to work in a granite quarry supplying a Reichsautobahn construction site in nearby Spittal an der Drau (the present-day Tauern Autobahn).

Matthias Sindelar

On 3 April 1938, the Austrian team played Germany in the Prater Stadium in Vienna its last match as an independent Austrian team, as some weeks earlier, Germany had annexed Austria (Anschluss) and the Nazis ordered the dissolution of the Austrian team into a common team with Germany, albeit it had qualified for the 1938 FIFA World Cup.

Once Upon a Honeymoon

After the annexation of Czechoslovakia by Germany, the Von Lubers travel to Warsaw, where the baron sells arms to Polish General Borelski (Albert Bassermann).

Otto Pächt

Shortly before Anschluss, Pächt left Austria to accept an invitation to work with the National Gallery of Ireland.

Sudeten German Party

At a convention in Carlsbad on April 24, the majority of the party advocated the demand for the recognition of the Sudeten Germans as an autonomous ethnic group, the separation of a self-governing German settlement area, and the freedom to decide for an affiliation with the German nationhood, which implied the Anschluss to Nazi Germany.

The Royal Game

Following the occupation and annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany, the country's monarchists (i.e. supporters of Otto von Habsburg as the rightful Emperor-King and the rule of the House of Habsburg), conservatives as well as supporters of Engelbert Dollfuss' Austrofascist regime, were severely persecuted by the Nazis, as they were seen as opponents of the Nazi regime.

Theodor Innitzer

In the 1963 movie The Cardinal, Innitzer was played by Josef Meinrad in scenes interpreting the events of the Anschluss including the statement and the sacking of the residence.

Wilhelm Miklas

Miklas for his initial refusal ended up under house arrest, protected from Nazi mistreatment by future Waffen-SS colonel Otto Skorzeny during the days of the Anschluss.