Germanization

American  

[jur-muhn-iz-ay-shuhn, -ahyz-ay-shuhn] / ˌdʒɜr mən ɪzˈeɪ ʃən, -aɪzˈeɪ ʃən /

noun

1. the act or process of Germanizing.

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Example Sentences

After that, there was a period of harsh Germanization, followed by extreme Frenchification after World War I, a brutal period under Nazi rule during World War II and then the strong need to purge all that was German after 1945.

From Seattle Times

Gather the children suitable for Germanization, then place them in SS families in the Reich and bring the rest of the children up in other way.

From Salon

Half a century later, the Gallic campaigns of C�sar brought the two peoples into conflict for the first time in the region of the later Rhine boundary, and had the very important effect of preventing the impending Germanization of Gaul and substituting the extension of Roman power and civilization in that quarter.

From Project Gutenberg

This movement, extending in time from about the middle of the 11th to the middle of the 13th century and carrying a stream of settlers and traders from the North-west, resulted not only in the Germanization of a wide territory but in the extension of German influence along the sea-coast far to the east of actual territorial settlement.

From Project Gutenberg

Meanwhile, the attempt to complete the Germanization of the frontier provinces of the Empire by conciliation or repression continued.

From Project Gutenberg