12 March 1938: The onset of great suffering – Commemoration and Reflection https://www.wien.gv.at/english/history/commemoration/anschluss.html
What began on 12 November 1918 ended on 12 March 1938: the First Austrian Republic. In the evening of 11 March 1938, Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg resigned and on 15 March 1938 Adolf Hitler declared the „Anschluss“ of Austria to Nazi Germany.
At 4 o’clock in the afternoon of the same day Adolf Hitler arrived in his hometown