English

Noun

Anschluss ‎(uncountable)

1. (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938. [from 1920s]
   • 1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage 2004, page 44:

     ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

   • 2001, Clive James, Even As We Speak:

     Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.

Translations

German

Alternative forms

• Anschluß (obsolete)

Etymology

From anschließen

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/

Noun

Anschluss m ‎(genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

1. connection, joining
2. annexation
3. (historical) Anschluss
4. contact

Declension

Derived terms

• Anschlusstor
• Internetanschluss