This is a print on demand publication. After the breakup of the Habsburg monarchy, Austrians of diverse political persuasions turned quickly toward Anschluss with the new German Republic. Between World Wars I & II the Anschluss movement figured large on the horizon of European history. Its “fulfillment” in 1938, when Hitler incorporated Austria into Germany, immediately undermined the stability & peace of Europe & the world. A year & a half after Austria’s absorption into the Greater Reich, Europe was aflame. The subject of this study is the early postwar Anschluss movement of 1918-1919, led by Austria’s Socialists. Illustrations.