Anschluss

See also: Anschluß

English

Etymology

From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).

Pronunciation
  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈan.ʃlʊs/

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

Etymology

From anschließen.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/
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Noun

Anschluss m (genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

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

Declension
Declension of Anschluss
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Anschluss die Anschlüsse
genitive eines des Anschlusses der Anschlüsse
dative einem dem Anschluss,
Anschlusse1		 den Anschlüssen
accusative einen den Anschluss die Anschlüsse
1Now uncommon, see notes

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