Anschluss means connection and it refers to an attempt to make a Greater German Reich.
 Although commonly translated as "German Empire", the word Reich here better translates as "realm" or territorial "reach", in that the term does not in itself have monarchical connotations
  Following the Anschluss annexation of Austria in 1938, Nazi Germany informally named itself the Greater German Reich (German: Grodeutsches Reich)

