Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the 19th and the 20th centuries, when conservatism and ethnic nationalism went hand in hand. In linguistics, Germanisation of non-German languages also occurs when they adopt many German words.
Under the policies of states such as the Teutonic Order, Austria, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the German Empire, non-German minorities were often discouraged or even prohibited from using their native language,[1] and had their traditions and culture suppressed in the name of linguistic imperialism. In addition, the Government also encouraged immigration from the Germanosphere to further upset the linguistic balance, but with varying degrees of success. In Nazi Germany, linguistic Germanisation was replaced by a policy of genocide against certain ethnic groups, even when they were already German-speaking.
^Interdiction of French language accompanied with fines and or jail, and destruction of any representation of France after the occupation of Alsace [1] Archived 2 February 2017 at the Wayback Machine
Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the...
Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting...
Germanisation is the spread of the German people, customs and institutions. The penetration of Germanic elements in the Gaul region began from the twilight...
The intermittent Germanisation of Prussia was a historical process that resulted in the region’s inclusion in various German states. Originating with...
The Germanisation of the Province of Posen was a policy of the Kulturkampf measures enacted by German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, whose goal was to...
parents and erased any records of their ancestry. Those who resisted Germanisation were beaten and, if a child continued to rebel, he or she would be sent...
Biology League. As RuSHA chief, Hofmann played a leading role in the "Germanisation" of the captured territory of Poland and the Soviet Union. This involved...
that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and its "ruthless Germanisation" were the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy....
the occupation, the German authorities orchestrated a programme of "Germanisation" of the country, suppressing non-German languages and customs and conscripting...
murder, and in the case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation. Forster was directly responsible for the extermination of non-Germans...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
Poles took up arms in the Greater Poland Uprising of 1848 to resist Germanisation, but its failure saw duchy's status reduced to a mere province; and...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
extermination of the native Slavic peoples by mass deportation to Siberia, Germanisation, enslavement, and genocide. In the two years leading up to the invasion...
Josip Jelačić helped defeat the Hungarians in 1849 and ushered in a Germanisation policy. By the 1860s, the failure of the policy became apparent, leading...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
to "ethnicity inversion". The term is also used to describe the "re-Germanisation" of the German people, after new Lebensraum was conquered and the German...
religion rather than rights to maintain national identity. The onset of Germanisation in the following decades, later joined by the Kulturkampf, changed quickly...
non-German population to abandon their national identity in what was called "Germanisation". These policies often had the reverse effect of stimulating resistance...
belief in some common ancestry with assimilated groups (for example with Germanisation in the Second World war). An extreme version is racial nationalism.[citation...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
such as those of the Teutonic Knights (the Northern Crusades), and Germanisation policies and warfare of modern German states such as those that implemented...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
they acknowledged the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire, leading to Germanisation and assimilation over the following centuries. However, up to the late...
non-Slavic descendants of Germanic settlers, and thus suitable for Germanisation. Early attempts to claim a racial division between "masters" and "slaves"...
Hitler spoke of "conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation" as his ultimate foreign policy objectives. In March, Prince Bernhard...
(epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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