“Anschluss” (union) of Germany and Austria was officially proclaimed from the upper balcony of the Chancellery in Vienna. The Austrian people will vote on the union by plebiscite on April 10.

Seventy-five years ago Tuesday, Nazi Germany annexed neighboring Austria in the “Anschluss,” a long-held dream of Chancellor Adolf Hitler and many others, including non-Nazis, in the two ...

Eighty-four years ago — on March 12, 1938 — Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany. In 1933, Germany’s Jews were under the grip of Nazism; five years later, Austrian Jewry would face the same fate. At ...