• Germanisation, or Germanization, is the spread of the German language, people, and culture. It was a central idea of German conservative thought in the...
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  • Kingdom of Prussia and later the German Empire imposed a number of Germanisation policies and measures in the newly gained territories, aimed at limiting...
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  • Germanisation is the spread of the German people, customs and institutions. The penetration of Germanic elements in the Gaul region began from the twilight...
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  • The intermittent Germanisation of Prussia was a historical process that resulted in the region’s inclusion in various German states. Originating with...
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  • An intense process of Germanisation was carried out by Nazi Germany in German-occupied Poland during World War II, with the ultimate goal of eliminating...
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    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...
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    Bukovina, Bessarabia and Dobrudscha). To further its objective of Germanisation, Nazi Germany endeavoured to increase the number of 'Volksdeutsche'...
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    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...
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    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...
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    murder, and in the case of some Poles with German ancestry, forceful Germanisation. Forster was directly responsible for the extermination of non-Germans...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    that the conquest of Lebensraum in Eastern Europe and its "ruthless Germanisation" were the ultimate geopolitical objectives of Reich foreign policy....
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    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...
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    the occupation, the German authorities orchestrated a programme of "Germanisation" of the country, suppressing non-German languages and customs and conscripting...
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  • (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    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...
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    had nourished a particular contempt for the Polish state and people. Germanisation was enforced to assimilate residents. He brought in German and Frisian...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    non-German population to abandon their national identity in what was called "Germanisation". These policies often had the reverse effect of stimulating resistance...
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    extermination of the native Slavic peoples by mass deportation to Siberia, Germanisation, enslavement, and genocide. In the two years leading up to the invasion...
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  • 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...
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    such as those of the Teutonic Knights (the Northern Crusades), and Germanisation policies and warfare of modern German states such as those that implemented...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    religion rather than rights to maintain national identity. The onset of Germanisation in the following decades, later joined by the Kulturkampf, changed quickly...
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    Hitler spoke of "conquest for Lebensraum in the East and its ruthless Germanisation" as his ultimate foreign policy objectives. In March, Prince Bernhard...
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    they acknowledged the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire, leading to Germanisation and assimilation over the following centuries. However, up to the late...
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  • belief in some common ancestry with assimilated groups (for example with Germanisation in the Second World war). An extreme version is racial nationalism.[citation...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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    (epithet) Fascist mysticism Feudal fascism F-scale (personality test) Germanisation of Poles during the Partitions Italianization of South Tyrol Japanization...
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