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, published 2004, page 44:
      ‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’
    • 1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:
      Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.
    • 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.
    • 2025 October 25, Mercedes Ruehl, “Lunch with the FT: Sebastian Kurz”, in FT Weekend, Life & Arts, page 3:
      Not far from where we are sitting is Heldenplatz, where in March 1938 Adolf Hitler addressed a cheering crowd to proclaim the Anschluss—the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, in defiance of the post-first world war treaties of Versailles and Saint-Germain.

Translations

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

Deverbal from anschließen.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈanʃlʊs/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Audio (Germany (Berlin)):(file)
  • Audio (Austria):(file)
  • Hyphenation: An‧schluss

Noun

Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)

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

Declension

Declension of Anschluss [masculine, strong]
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 rare, see notes.

Hyponyms

Further reading

Polish

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈan.ʂlus/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -anʂlus
  • Syllabification: An‧schluss

Proper noun

Anschluss m inan

  1. (historical, Nazism) alternative spelling of anszlus

Declension

Declension of Anschluss
singular
nominative Anschluss
genitive Anschlussu
dative Anschlussowi
accusative Anschluss
instrumental Anschlussem
locative Anschlussie
vocative Anschlussie

Further reading

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