Germanism

Nazi ideology brought together elements of anti-Semitism, racial hygiene, and eugenics, and combined them with pan Germanism and territorial expansionism with the goal of obtaining more Lebensraum for the Germanic people.

Now this union of Jewry and Germanism with the negro-like basic substance must necessarily result in a remarkable product.

Mann understood that the effort Germany had to make in order "to modernize, democratize herself, sweeping away the old, romantic imperial Germany" was a task that could only proceed "agonizingly and against the grain, meeting extreme resistance because the old Germany [was] much to deeply and firmly established in men's souls, [was] much to deeply identified, perhaps, with Germanism itself." (119) Oddly enough, that statement came in September of 1918, but it rang true for the entire span of the Weimar era.

The primary argument is that, since 'Polonism had resisted the utmost efforts of Germanism and Slavonism for more than a hundred years,' Poland has a future as 'an outpost of Western civilisation' between these powers.

Favorites of the broadcast media in the post9/11 world are "shtrong" and "shtrength." Pronouncing "st" as "sht" is a Germanism, but the vast majority of Americans are unaware of this.

Gothicism, or "Germanism" as it was sometimes called, not only sounded a European note; it was used to describe things considered archaic, outmoded, and outlandish; it was, moreover, derided by some American critics as a cheaply imitative form of writing.

The instance of ostracizing Germany as England's 'Other' is historically compatible with a rapid melt-down of Germanism which pervaded the intellectual discourse in Britain in the 19th century (Collini 1991:365; Mandler 2006:100).

Some considered him less than orthodox on issues like anti-Semitism and Germanism. Baumler will try to defend him against these charges.

(4) See my 'Playful 'Germanism' in "The Fall of the House of Usher": The Storyteller's Art', in Ruined Eden of the Present-Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe-Critical Essays in Honor of Darrel Abel, ed.

Douglas also accused the Lutheran parochial schools of being "little colonies of Germanism."