Anschluss is used to describe Nazi Germany's annexation of Austria and it was an attempt to great a Greater German Reich.
Anschluss ( [ ˈʔanʃlʊs ] , `` connection '' or `` joining '' ) is the term used to describe the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany on 12 March 1938 . 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 )