Multiple choice general knowledge history

Which of the following countries was the first non-German country to be occupied by Nazi government?

  1. Belgium

  2. Switzerland

  3. Austria

  4. Poland
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Explanation

In March 1938, Nazi Germany annexed Austria in an event known as the Anschluss. This made Austria the first non-German country to be occupied by the Nazi government, occurring before the invasion of Poland, Belgium, or other Western European nations.

AI explanation

Austria was the first non-German country occupied by the Nazi regime, absorbed into Germany during the Anschluss of March 1938. Poland was not invaded until September 1939, over a year later, making it a much later conquest, not the first. The correct answer is Austria, not Poland.

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