Why did Austria accept German annexation?

In March 1938, German troops crossed the border into Austria without firing a single shot. Within days, the Republic of Austria ceased to exist, swallowed whole into Adolf Hitler's Greater German Reich. Was the Anschluss a popular unification desired by the Austrian public, or a carefully orchestrated political takeover backed by military coercion? #History #WWII #Austria #Anschluss #MapAnimation Video Tags: Why Austria accepted German annexation, Anschluss 1938 map history, Why didn't Austria fight Hitler, Kurt Schuschnigg plebiscite, Arthur Seyss Inquart Nazi coup, Austrofascism vs Nazism, Treaty of Saint Germain, Mussolini abandons Austria, Wehrmacht march into Vienna, Stresa Front collapse, How Anschluss encircled Czechoslovakia, Hero Square Heldenplatz speech, Interwar European borders, Map Animation, Historical Mapping, World War 2.