German troops entered the country on March 12, 1938.
They received the enthusiastic support of most of the population.
Austria was incorporated into Germany the next day.
In April, this German annexation was retroactively approved in a plebiscite that was manipulated to indicate that about 99 percent of the Austrian people wanted the union (known as the Anschluss) with Germany.
Neither Jews nor Roma (Gypsies) were allowed to vote in the plebiscite.
