Anschluss is used to describe an event on European soil.
Anschluss . The idea of an Anschluss ( Austria and Germany united to form a `` Greater Germany '' ) began after the Unification of Germany excluded Austria and the Austrian Germans from the Prussian-dominated German nation-state in 1871 . Austria ( listen ) , is a federal republic and a landlocked country of over 8.7 million people in Central Europe . The unification of Germany into a politically and administratively integrated nation state officially occurred on 18 January 1871 , in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France .