The establishment of the empire was to follow the model of the Austrian Anschluss of 1938, just carried out on a greater scale.[37] Goebbels emphasized in April 1940 that the annexed Germanic countries would have to undergo a similar "national revolution" as Germany herself did after the Machtergreifung, with an enforced rapid social and political "co-ordination" in accordance with Nazi principles and ideology (Gleichschaltung).[37]