# Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss

Date: 1938

## The fact

On 12–13 March 1938 German troops entered Austria and a law proclaimed Anschluss. It is a dated annexation. Adolf Hitler's documented role is: He forced Schuschnigg, sent the army, and proclaimed union. Seyss-Inquart and the Austrian Nazis share the file.

## Context

Schuschnigg's cancelled plebiscite is the immediate trigger file. Sharing the operation with Seyss-Inquart is required. The setting of Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss is the public file around 1938-03-13. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver [democratic-resilience](/drivers/democratic-resilience) is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

The attached driver is democratic-resilience. The welfare reading used in this dossier is worsening. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

## Evidence and sources

USHMM and Avalon independently document March 1938. Official carrier: Avalon Project — Anschluss documents March 1938 (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/; Yale Avalon Project). Independent carrier: USHMM — Anschluss (https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum).

Official or archival record: Avalon Project — Anschluss documents March 1938 (https://avalon.law.yale.edu/; Yale Avalon Project).

## Significance

Worsening democratic-sovereignty path of high weight. Complex. High confidence. The welfare reading on this path is worsening. Readers checking this Fact should open both named URLs for Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss.

Shared responsibility is part of Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss. Naming Adolf Hitler does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1938-03-13 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## What is established and what is not

Established: March 1938 annexation. Not established: that the 10 April plebiscite was free. Established: a sourced public record of Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss under 1938-03-13.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. The later rigged plebiscite is confirmation theatre, not a free union. Mixed effects of Germany annexes Austria in the Anschluss are separate paths.

## People

- Adolf Hitler: https://factrail.ai/people/adolf-hitler

## Drivers

- Democratic Resilience: https://factrail.ai/drivers/democratic-resilience

## Sources

- https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/
- https://avalon.law.yale.edu/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hitler-anschluss-1938