Anschluss is used to describe an event in 1938 and it was an attempt to make a Greater German Reich.
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 . Greater German Reich . Nazi Germany , the official state name of which was `` Greater German Reich '' from 1943 to 1945 ( also used informally after the 1938 Anschluss of Austria )