Hitler scheduled joint plebiscites in Austria and Germany for April 10, 1938. Both populations voted on whether to incorporate the two countries into a single state. The people of Austria cast 99.73 percent of their ballots in favor of Anschluss with Germany. The Germans voted 99.08 percent for unification.. On March 18. 1938, the German government notified the League of Nations that Austria had cancelled its affiliation. This international body, which had never manifest concern for the plight of the distressed little nation, now debated whether Germany was responsible for paying Austria's delinquent membership dues of 50, 000 Swiss francs from January 1 to March 13. This ended the chain of circumstances leading to the unification of Hitler's homeland with the German Reich, an event known to history as "the rape of Austria.Richard Tedor
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The Munich Conference was held in Munich, Germany, during 1938 by delegates of other countries who were invited by the British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. The conference was held to discuss the territorial disputes between the Allies and the Axis. The purpose of the conference was to achieve a diplomatic solution to the matters at hand without involving war. The main issue at hand was controls on Germany's military expansion. It was decided that there would be no war until World War II ended.
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