Pan-Germanism

[pan-jur-muh-niz-uhm]

noun

1. the idea or advocacy of a union of all the German peoples in a single political organization or state.

Pan-Germanism

noun

1. (esp in the 19th century) the movement for the unification of Germany

Other Word Forms

• Pan-German adjective
• Pan-Germanic adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of Pan-Germanism¹

First recorded in 1880–85; pan- + Germanism

Example Sentences

Although the Dreyfus affair and the Kishinev Pogrom were formative events in its history, Zionism issued from the same womb that produced pan-Germanism and other late 19th-century ethnocentric and xenophobic movements.

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Surprisingly, given how unpopular notions of pan-Germanism are in contemporary Austrian society, he has not always done so in unambiguous terms.

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The word "Pan-Germanism" usually implies some common action or interest among all those who speak the German language, and suggests some kind of racial bond or sense of kindred.

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A glance into America's future by the man who, in his book PAN-GERMANISM, foretold with such amazing accuracy the coming of the present European events.

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Blind, prejudiced, as they were, meekly pandering to pan-Germanism which they considered as the best antidote to the Anglo-Saxonism they abhor, they could not understand that the Lusitania horror, the slaughtering of hundreds of American citizens in violation of all the principles of International Law, the crimes of the Teutonic submarine campaign more than justified the intervention of the United States in the war.

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