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| 1938 | Goering, Herman |  |
| 26th Mar Herman Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria |
| 1938 | Guderian, Heinz |  |
| 12th Mar Commands the 2nd Panzer Division through Linz to Vienna during the Anscluss |
| 1938 | Hess, Rudolph |  |
| 25th Jan Austrian police raid the Committee of Seven Vienna HQ |
| 25th Jan Documents are found signed by Hess clearing an Austrian Nazi revolt in the Spring |
| 1938 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| 12th Feb Berlin Hitler orders the Austrian Chancellor to to hand over control of his government |
| 12th Feb Berlin Informs the Austrian Chancellor to hand control over to the Nazis |
| 20th Feb Berlin Promises to support the rights of Germans not living in the Reich in the Reichstag |
| 9th Mar Kurt Schuschnigg defies the Nazis & calls for a referendum on independence |
| 10th Mar Berlin Decides on military occupation before Schuschnigg's plebiscite of March 13th |
| 11th Mar Austrian Nazis in government appeal to Hitler to restore order |
| 11th Mar Austrian Nazis take to the streets in Austria & appeal to Hitler to restore order |
| 11th Mar Berlin Makes an ultimatum to Schuschnigg forbidding his referendum on union with Germany |
| 11th Mar Mussolini indicates that he will not intervene to save Austria |
| 12th Mar Linz Germany.index.html title="History of German">German troops occupy Austria which then becomes a Dominion of the Third Reich |
| 12th Mar Germany invades Austria after the Austrian Nazi Party invite Germany.index.html title="History of German">German troops to march in and the union becomes the Anschluss |
| 12th Mar Vienna Orders Stuckart to Vienna to organize anshcluss n defiance of the Versailles treaty |
| 12th Mar Berlin Orders Wihelm Stuckart to Vienna to draft a law making him President of Austria |
| 12th Mar Linz Proclaims the union of Austria with Germany |
| 14th Mar Berlin Chamberlain anounces in the Commons that nothing could have stopped the anshcluss |
| 14th Mar Berlin Makes a triumphal entry into Vienna, where he had lived so long as a tramp |
| April Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna meets with Hitler and then directs all Catholic clergy and laity to "unconditionally support the great Germany.index.html title="History of German">German State and the Fuhrer" |
| 10th April 99.08% of Austrians & Germans vote in favour of the Anscluss |
| 1938 | Hupfauer, Theo |  |
| Sent into Austria to set up Worker's Front organizations |
| 1938 | Stuckart, Wihelm |  |
| 12th Mar Berlin Ordered by Hitler to Vienna to organize a total anshcluss |