Anschluss

‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

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.

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.

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.