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A newpaper of the anschluss of that time

This was the place were the events occurs

A British cartoon commenting on the Sudetenland crisis of 1938.

A British cartoon from 1939.

A soviet cartoon from 1939. CCCP is russian for USSR. The french and the British are directing Hitler away from western Europe and Towards the USSR.

German armed forces 1932 and 1939

"The forty-eight hours after the march into the Rhineland were the most nerve-racking in my life. If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

"At that time we had no army worth mentioning .... If the French had taken any action we would have been easily defeated; Our resistance would have been over in a few days. And the Air Force we had then was ridiculous - a few junkers 52s from Lufthansa and not even enough bombs for them..." Adolf Hitler speech after German forces get into the Rhineland, 1936.

A British cartoon about the reoccupation of the Rhineland, 1936. "Pax Germanica" is Latin and means "Peace, German style".

This cartoon from 1938 shows Hitler as a poacher, stealing Austria. Mussolini is shown as a game keeper: "All right, Adolf-I never heard a shot".

The Anschluss, or annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany, was welcomed by the majority of Austrians. It led to discrimination against the Austrian Jews.

Here are some of the sources i found.