Entry:Anschluss (n.)
In context: "'It is a long story to the side of this story, but my part of the Swiss nation is in my time of no legs invaded and despoiled by stronger and evil hated and neighboring nations, who claim as in the Anschluss of Hitler that they are friends and are not invading the Swiss but conferring on us gifts of alliance.'"
Definition: Annexation or union, spec. of Austria to Germany (either the actual union in 1938 or as proposed before that date).
Other: I didn't expect this to be in the OED, but there you go.
SNOOT score: 2
Page: 777
Source: Oxford English Dictionary
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