 However, the Republic gradually developed into the Austrofascist dictatorship between 1933–1934 under Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss, who was assassinated by Nazi party agents in 1934.The First Republic ended with the "Anschluss" (annexation) to Nazi Germany in 1938.Following the defeat of the German Reich in 1945 Austria resumed its republican government, after it fully regained its independence from the occupying Allied Powers.