Pan-Germanism

American  

[pan-jur-muh-niz-uhm] / ˌpænˈdʒɜr məˌnɪz əm /

noun

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

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Pan-Germanism British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• Pan-German
  adjective
• Pan-Germanic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pan-Germanism

First recorded in 1880–85; pan- + Germanism

Example Sentences

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Pan-Germanism

Astounding as it was that Adolf Hitler, exponent of Pan-Germanism, should relinquish so lightly one of the oldest European outposts of German commerce and culture, the details of this mass migration were even more amazing.

From Time Magazine Archive

Washington University's Roland Greene Usher, 70, grey-thatched historian, whose Pan-Germanism, published in 1913, first won the scorn, then the praise, of critics for predicting a major European war stirred up by German ambition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pan-Germanism is not Pan-Teutonism in any proper sense, being confined to the several German countries of Europe, and especially to the combination of states in the German Empire.

From A History of the Nations and Empires Involved and a Study of the Events Culminating in the Great Conflict by Logan Marshall

They see in the victory of Pan-Germanism the effective promise of the realization of such ideals.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

The jolly, free, brave Scandinavians are naturally opposed to all that Pan-Germanism and German rule means.

From Face to Face with Kaiserism by James W. (James Watson) Gerard