Pan-Germanism

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Pan-Germanism is a nationalist and imperialist ideology that sought the political and cultural unification and expansion of all German-speaking peoples into a single, dominant German nation-state.

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Label Occurrences
Pan-Germanism canonical 2
Greater German solution 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf imperialist ideology
nationalist ideology
pan-nationalist movement
political ideology
associatedEthnicGroup Austrians
Baltic Germans
German-speaking Swiss
Sudeten Germans
Transylvanian Saxons
Volga Germans
ethnic Germans
associatedLanguageGroup German-speaking peoples
criticizedFor contribution to aggressive war in Europe
ethnic chauvinism
imperial expansionism
militarism
declinedAfter defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945
emergedInCentury 19th century
emergedInRegion German-speaking Europe
hasMainGoal creation of a single German nation-state
expansion of German cultural influence
expansion of German political power
unification of all German-speaking peoples
historicalContext Austro-Prussian rivalry
World War I
World War II
decline of the Holy Roman Empire
interwar period in Europe
unification of Germany in 1871
ideologicalFocus cultural homogenization of German-speaking areas
political centralization under a dominant German state
influenced Anschluss ideology
German expansionist policies
Nazi foreign policy
influencedBy German nationalism
Romantic nationalism
ideas of ethnic unity
opposedBy anti-imperialist movements
liberal internationalism
many non-German national movements in Europe
politicalAim annexation of territories with German-speaking populations
dominance of a unified German state in Central Europe
revision of existing European borders
promotedConcept Greater Germany
linked to: Germany and Austria

Volksgemeinschaft
relatedConcept Greater German solution
linked to: Pan-Germanism

Kleindeutschland solution
relatedMovement Pan-Slavism
linked to: pan-Slavism

Pan-Turkism
supportsPolicy Anschluss of Austria to Germany
unification of all Germans in one state

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Lebensraum influencedBy Pan-Germanism
Pan-Slavism relatedTo Pan-Germanism
subject linked to: pan-Slavism
Pan-Germanism relatedConcept Greater German solution
linked to: Pan-Germanism