Which was the first European nation to be absorbed by Nazi
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Posted on (Answer #1)  The answer to this depends on what you
mean by “absorb.”  There will be a different answer if you are
talking about Germany taking a country over without fighting
than there will be if you are talking about military conquest
and absorption.  If you are talking about military conquest, the
correct answer would be Poland.  Germany invaded Poland in
September of 1939.  It defeated Poland in about six weeks.  It
divided up conquered Poland with the Soviet Union as it had
agreed to do before the war started.  However, I think that the
better answer is Austria.  This was the first country that
Germany absorbed before the war started.  It did so in a semi-
voluntary annexation that is known as the “Anschluss.”  Much of
the population of Austria welcomed this union with Germany
because the people of both countries were ethnically German. 
Even so, Austria ceased to exist as a co