Anschluss
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See also: Anschluß
English
Etymology
From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).
Pronunciation
Noun
Anschluss (uncountable)
- (historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.
- 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.
Translations
the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy
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German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Deverbal from anschließen.
Pronunciation
Noun
Anschluss m (strong, genitive Anschlusses, plural Anschlüsse)
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 rare, see notes.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “Anschluss” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “Anschluss” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “Anschluss” in Duden online
Anschluss on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
Polish
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from German Anschluss.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Anschluss m inan
- (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
- Anschluss in Polish dictionaries at PWN