Anschluss is used to describe an event on 12 March and it was an attempt to create a Greater German Reich.
Anschluss -LRB- -LSB- ˈʔanʃlʊs -RSB- , `` connection '' or `` joining '' -RRB- is the term used to describe the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938.
The idea of an Anschluss -LRB- Austria and Germany united to form a `` Greater Germany '' -RRB- began after the Unification of Germany excluded Austria and the Austrian Germans from the Prussian-dominated German nation-state in 1871.
