WWII Effect on Austria

Austria was effected in WWII in a crucial and rather tyrannical way. Hitler and the Nazi's essentially demanded Austria to join Germany and with little resistance the job was done. Hitler gave Austria an ultimatum to be annexed or be invaded and fearing this invasion Austria succumbed. In 1938 one year before WWII, Germany officially annexed Austria as part of the anschluss. This led to the Austrian people becoming assimilated into the German society and the Nazi way of life where Hitler converted thousands of Austrians into Nazi soldiers. Numerous concentration camps were also set up that led to the deaths of a vast amount of innocent Jews. As the war progressed Austrian cities were obliterated by the Allied forces and thousands of lives were lost in the gruesome process. All in all, after the war Austria disbanded from Germany and began to rebuild its way of life after suffering