"A nation, a realm, a leader" - when the campaign for the annexation of Austria to the German Reich was in full swing in March 1938, this triad could be heard repeatedly in the squares and markets. It linked the hope for social harmony with the longing for national strength, while simultaneously making it clear that behind the beautiful facade of the National Socialist people's community lurked the brutal exclusion of all those who could not or did not want to belong. Racial inequality, as this impressive overview shows, was the structural principle of German society in the Third Reich, increasingly unbounded state violence was the central pillar of the new political order, and radical anti-Semitism was the fuel that drove the entire machine. Dietmar Süss skillfully weaves together the concrete fates of individuals.