 Compare "Ostmark", the name adopted for Austria after the Anschluss by the Nazi movement.Nazi race theory stressed the supposed "Aryan" status of the Dutch people (and thus their racial kinship with the Germans themselves), as a result of which the occupying Nazi authorities desired to annex the Netherlands into a greatly enlarged version of the (already-expanded) German Reich, the Greater Germanic Reich.Early political plans proposed transforming the country in its entirety into a "Gau Westland", or even a "Gau Holland".