Anschluss – n - Union, esp. the political union of Austria with Germany in 1938.
From the German for 'annexation.' The Third Reich annexed Austria in 1938 followed by Czechoslavakia's mostly German-speaking Sudetenland in 1939. These were unintended consequences of the redrawing of the European map by the victors at Versailles, and were part of the buildup to the second world war that the 1919 treaty had, in my opinion, made inevitable.
And now, in honor of J B Wolf, I offer The Pasture, a favorite poem by Robert Frost (1874-1963).
I'm going out to clean the pasture spring;
I'll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha'n't be gone long.
You come too.
I'm going out to fetch the little calf
That's standing by the mother.
It's so young, It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha'n't be gone long.
You come too.
