Although many Jews managed to emigrate from Germany before further persecution occurred, it was essentially difficult for any Jew to escape the imminent danger that loomed on a large scale in both Germany Nazi than in Austria. Reasons why emigration was very difficult included the reluctance of Jews to move when they had lived in Germany all their lives and had generations of family members who had all grown up in Germany, and some who had even served for Germany during the First World War. War. The prospect of leaving family behind was too much for Jews to imagine, as some Jews were married to non-Jewish women and considered themselves more German than Jewish. This essay will however focus on a variety of factors which include the economic problems faced by Jews even before the introduction of the Anschluss in 1938, immigration restrictions acutely established for Jewish immigrants by Western countries such as Great Britain and the United States in particular, and the role Antisemitism spread throughout the world during this period of time, severely preventing and halting the emigration of the majority of Jews from Nazi Germany and Austria, after the Anschluss and until the outbreak of the Second World War. Hitler's vision of unification and annexation The transformation of Austria and Nazi Germany into a greater "German Reich" was ultimately represented through the implementation of the Anschluss in March 1938. The Anschluss would certainly realize Hitler's dream of exert power and control over the Jewish population, marginalizing Jews from society by using forms of power such as propaganda to promote them as outcasts before German citizens, a goal Hitler had sought to achieve many years earlier since being appointed Chancellor of Germany in 1932 . The development...... middle of paper...... rence: Nazi Germany and the Jews pp.223-225). Friedlander's detailed analysis of the hostility that existed towards Jews before World War II clearly demonstrates how many countries were wary and cautious about accepting Jewish refugees due to fears that anti-Semitism would play a role. in the creation of a divided population, which would invoke racial tensions, hatred and hostility between the Jews and non-Jews of the time, created by the Nazis' heavy promotion of anti-Semitic views of Jews which probably influenced numerous countries to some extent so as to make them less lenient towards Jewish refugees in Germany and Austria, and were reluctant to accept others in need of escape, despite the hardships and persecution many still faced at the hands of the Nazis. Furthermore, before the outbreak of World War II, the countries