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Ostmark (English: "Eastern March") was the name used by Nazi propaganda to replace that of the formerly independent Austria after the Anschluss annexation of that country by Nazi Germany in 1938. The Nazi government under Adolf Hitler had the incorporated territory renamed: the name Austria (Österreich in German, meaning "Eastern Realm") was forbidden and at first replaced by "Ostmark", referring to the 10th century Marcha orientalis. The change of name was meant to blank out the millennium of separate Austrian history and to hark back to the time when the lands simply formed a march of the Bavarian stem duchy.…mehr

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Ostmark (English: "Eastern March") was the name used by Nazi propaganda to replace that of the formerly independent Austria after the Anschluss annexation of that country by Nazi Germany in 1938. The Nazi government under Adolf Hitler had the incorporated territory renamed: the name Austria (Österreich in German, meaning "Eastern Realm") was forbidden and at first replaced by "Ostmark", referring to the 10th century Marcha orientalis. The change of name was meant to blank out the millennium of separate Austrian history and to hark back to the time when the lands simply formed a march of the Bavarian stem duchy.