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Germany forced union with Austria
. Hitler justified annexation as an attempt to reintegrate all Germans into a single homeland. France and Britain didn’t do anything about this. Soon after, the Nazis attempted to gain control of the Sudetenland (western part of Czechoslovakia) under the same reason.
.. Region was inhabited by ethnic Germans, whom Hitler regarded as persecuted minorities. Although Czech government was willing to make concessions to the Sudeten Germans, Hitler demanded the immediate cession of the Sudetenland to the German empire. France and Britain accommodated Hitler and allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland. Neither the French nor the British were willing to risk a military confrontation with Germany to defend Czechoslovakian territory.