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World Service,15 May 2012,10 mins

The Anschluss

Witness History

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In March 1938 Austria was annexed by Nazi Germany - it would not regain its independence for more than 17 years. One Vienna resident remembers the day that Hitler's troops marched in. Photo: Austrians welcoming German troops. Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images.

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