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Operation Anschluss
Part of the European Front of World War II
Clockwise from top left: French tanks advance through Brussels; Austrian panzers advancing to Breslau; German soldiers fighting defensive actions near Leipzig; Austrian divebombers over German formations in Brandenburg; German refugees fleeing Karlsruhe, Cologne after being bombed by the RAF.
Date 22 June – 5 December 1941 (5 months, 1 week and 6 days) Location Western, Central, and Eastern Europe Result Entente failure Entente failure to achieve knockout blow Opening of the European Front Beginning of German winter counteroffensive Start of the Siege of Berlin
Belligerents
South German Federation Third French Republic Commonwealth of Great Britain and Ireland Kingdom of Italy	German Empire
Commanders and leaders
Jakob Federstein Charles XI Oswald Mosley Victor Emmanuel III	Wilhem III Otto Wels
Units involved
Entente armies Army Group North 16th Army 18th Army 4th Panzer Army Army Group Center 4th Army 9th Army 2nd Panzer Army 3rd Panzer Army 2nd Army Army Group South 6th Army 11th Army 17th Army 1st Panzer Army Romanian 3rd Army Romanian 4th Army Army Norway Finnish Army	German armies Northern Front 7th Army 8th Army 48th Army 52nd Army 54th Army 55th Army Northwestern Front 11th Army 27th Army 34th Army Western Front 3rd Army 10th Army 13th Army 16th Army 19th Army 20th Army 22nd Army 24th Army 28th Army 40th Army 50th Army Southwestern Front 5th Army 6th Army 12th Army 21st Army 26th Army 37th Army Southern Front 9th Army 18th Army Coastal Army