anschluss is utilized to describe the unification of austria with germany
a compromise was reached and article eighty of the treaty of versailles stated that germany acknowledges and will respect strictly the independence of austria within the frontiers which may be fixed in a treaty between that state and the principal allied and associated powers she agrees that this independence shall be inalienable except with the consent of the council of the league of nations
 hitler argued in a 1921 essay that the german reich had a single task of incorporating the ten million germanaustrians in the empire and dethroning the habsburgs the most miserable dynasty ever ruling