What is Pan German nationalism?
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Pan-Germanism, German nationalist doctrine aiming at the union of all German-speaking peoples under German rule. Pan-Germanists considered that not only the German groups in neighboring countries, such as Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland, and Alsace, but even distant German-speaking groups such as Volga Germans, Baltic Germans, Transylvanian Germans, and German-Americans were linked by a blood tie to their fatherland. The doctrine originated in the late 19th cent. as an instrument of German imperialistic expansion. In 1893 the Alldeutscher Verbund (Pan-German League) was founded. The Pan-Germans became particularly vocal after Germany's defeat in World War I had deprived it of some border territories and its colonies. National Socialism appropriated Pan-Germanism; by the annexation of Austria and of German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and by German conquests in Europe during World War II, Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded for a time in making the Pan-German program a reality.\n\nHope this helps!
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Although I understand that there have been government reforms in recent years, in the past, being born in Germany did not necessarily grant citizenship.  There has been much discussion for years about the "Gastarbeiter" - "Guest-Workers" mostly from Turkey who were brought to Germany after World War II.  Many of the grandchildren of these Gastarbeiters still were not given citizenship despite the fact that they and their parents were born and raised in Germany.\n\nI would like to also say that I find the reference to an "Arian" ideal in the post below both ignorant (it's misspelled) and offensive.  The Aryan race was invented by the Nazis to justify their genocide against Jews, Gypsies, Slavs, and other minority groups.  It does not correctly typify pre-Nazi ideals about German ethnicity, nor does it represent what German citizenship means today.  \n\nIt is also silly to call Germany's citizenship system "primitive."  While the post below holds French immigration policy in high regard, it ignores the fact that France is leading the way in modern Europe toward oppressive and restrictive laws aimed at Muslims and other ethnic groups.\n\nWhile Germany certainly ought to rid itself of the "Gastarbeiter" class, to continue Nazi stereotypes while glorfying a similarly faulty system is silly and unhelpful.
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Early in 1848 several outbreaks of revolution had caused the French King Louis Phillippe to abdicate (25th February) and Metternich, the chief minister of the Habsburg Monarchy and architect of a system of restored monarchical government in Europe since before the fall of Napoleon (1815), had been driven into exile.\n\nIn these times in the diverse states of Germany several rulers were faced with respectful, yet determined, demands for change and, starting with Baden in early March, moved to award Constitutions or to allow liberalisation of existing Constitutions. On the 16th of March barricades were raised in Berlin, the capital of the Prussian Kingdom. Prussia was then ruled by King Frederick William IV who was anti-liberal and had famously said at the opening of an 'United Diet' of his territories in 1847, the first advisory assembly that any Prussian monarch had been prepared to recognise, that:- \n\n"Never will I permit a written sheet of paper to come between our God in heaven and this land ... to rule us with its paragraphs and supplant the old, sacred loyalty." \n\nAfter an incident precipitated street fighting the King withdrew his soldiers rather than see even more fatalities amongst his "beloved Berliners" and was subsequently called upon by the populace on the 19th to stand bareheaded whilst the earthly remains of those Berliners killed in the street fighting were paraded with their wounds exposed. The King formalised a change in political direction through the appointment of a new ministry and proclamation issued on the morning of the 21st announced that the King had placed himself at the head of the German nation and would appear that day in his capital wearing "old German" colours.\nThese black, red, and gold colours were at one and the same time "revolutionary" in being associated with contemporary German Liberalism and Nationalism having been adopted by "patriotic" Germany in the days of the Wars of Liberation against Napoleon but were also thought of as being associated with the earlier "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation," (which had been discontinued as a result of a dramatic reorganisation of the Germanies that had been sponsored by Napoleon at thre height of his power). \nDuring his progess through the streets of Berlin the King was occasionally hailed as Emperor but he felt moved to assert that he intended to rob no German prince of his sovereignty. \nA manifesto was issued towards evening which sought to sum up up the position being adopted:- \n\n"Germany is in ferment within, and exposed from without to danger from more than one side. Deliverance from this danger can come only from the most intimate union of the German princes and people under a single leadership. I have taken this leadership upon me for the hour of peril. I have today assumed the old German colours, and placed myself under the venerable banner of the German Empire. Prussia henceforth is merged in Germany." \n  In the unsettled and challenging times invitations sent out by a self-appointed group of liberals based in Heidelberg led to the convening, in Frankfurt on the 30th March, of a preparatory parliament ( Vorparlament ) which, at the close of five days in session, recognised a fifty member committee as being responsible for the organisation of processes of election to a German National Assembly which was projected to convene in Frankfurt in May. \nAt the time of the Heidelberg meeting although aspirations for various forms of political change were being widely voiced all the traditional states of the German Confederation were still actually in being!!! \n\nDuring these times the Federal Diet of the German Confederation was debating processes of election towards reaching decisions about the future of the Germanies but, in the event, it decided that it was not to be the authority behind such decisions and effectively endorsed the elective programme of t
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Too much nationalistic pride. But it is not even about them really loving their country it is because they don't like other countries. But it isn't even about their hate of other countries. It is simply because they are angry. Angry about the way their life is, angry about their lack of success, and hard times. They blame this on everyone else instead of accepting responsibility for their own lives. Blame it on a race, other country, God, even society.
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If we look to the current government in Germany, we see a something amazing taking place.  The Neo-Nazi political structure is gaining more ground with every election that takes place.  The last time I heard, the German political arena had 10% of its representatives under the Neo-Nazi party.  Why is this taking place, this day in age in Germany?  One answer, the people know that the Neo-Nazis in power will work to pass harder sanctions against the large influx of Middle Eastern immigrants coming into the Country.  These middle easterners are seen as a threat for increased chance of terrorism to take hold and shatter their way of life.  So, I guess if you are German, and afraid of losing a grip on your way of life the answer would be to join and support the Neo-Nazi party.\n\nHowever, in America, the idea of being a "Nazi" is nothing more than a representation of the ignorance within.  People who "claim" to be Nazi are just angry punks, wearing combat boots, beating up people who are "different" from them, but who don't wear the fancy robes that the Klan wear. \n\nIn both cases listed above, I think if you are a scared individual who still believes that people should be divided into different "races", and that you are in some way (insert laugh here) superior to those other "races" then by all means get yourself a pair of combat boots and call yourself a Nazi....
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***Correct Answer***\nd. the government control of the media.\n\nTotalitarianism, by its very nature, sets out to make the government the "total" controller of a nation.  The Third Reich is a prime example of this.\n\n***Incorrect Answers***\na. the establishment of two-party elections\n\nUp to the 1930s, Germany had multiple-party elections.\n\nb. the encouragement of private business enterprise\n\nAlthough this is what voters for the Nazi Party wanted to see when the Party took power (it was a part of their platform), the opposite happened.  However, the Third Reich later curtailed private business enterprise, but it still existed. \n\nc. the decline of the german economy\n\nThe decline of the German economy prior to the election that gave control to the Nazi Party was due to the Great Depression (which was a worldwide event).
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Follow this link -\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany\n\nand this -\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coat_of_arms_of_Germany\n\nShould tell you all you need to know.
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The culture....OMG...it is so much closer to the German culture.  Look at the past, look at what happened. Also, look at today.  Those two countries, politically, are closer allies than France and Spain.
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Is this for real?Sounds bizarre,I missed"Fatherland"about what it would be like if Germany won WWII.
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Pan-Africanism is a concept coined in the early 1900 in the West Indies promoting "unity of all Black/African descended people worldwide irrespective of ethnicity/culture or nationality"\n\nAfro-Jamaican Marcus Garvey lead the largest Pan-Africanism movement with his organization UNIA-ACL. Originally Started in Jamaica and then moved to Harlem in 1914.\n\nToday the whole concept of Pan Africanism is shattered and segmented, many have opted to represent their own local niche organizations, as it has been heavily criticized that not all members share the same view, and even in a organization that represents a 'minority', the majority overlook the cultural and ethnic differences of the smaller factions.\n\nI have included a wikipedia reference for further reading.\n\nHope this helps.
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The first attempt at unifying Germany was Charlemagne's Holy Roman Empire (843-1806 AD, aka the First Reich). Intially it was a politically cohesive whole, but after Charlemagne died the political vaccuum reverted his Empire to a loose political confederation between the various German principalities and kingdoms led by a council of the most powerful princes and religious leaders of the Empire. The Empire included modern-day Germany, the Czeck Republic, Austria, Lichtenstein, Slovenia, Belgium, and Luxumbourg and parts of Poland, the Netherlands, and Croatia as of the 18th century, and at times claimed the whole of the Netherlands and Switzerland and parts of France and Italy. The Peace of Westphalia (after the 30 Years War between Catholic and Protestant in 1648) undermined the Empire further by allowing it's member states much greater sovereignity and independence, leading to a slow decline. Wars with Revolutionary France beginning in 1792 further threatened the Empire, and Napolean's conquests caused the Empire to formally dissolve in Aug 6, 1806.\n\nThe second period of German unification was Prussian in origin. Prussian Chancellor Otto van Bismarck took advantage of threats of war with Denmark, then Austria, and finally France to coerce the smaller central German states to join Prussia, until Prussia declared a new German Empire in Versailles on Jan 18, 1871 (the Second Reich), which included modern day Germany and parts of Poland, Baltic Russia, the Czeck Republic, and recently-conquered France. Austria remained seperate. Inklings of German nationalism were evident in discrimination against non-Germans within this empire. The Prussian State was dissolved after the First World War with the Treaty of Versailles; Germany was reduced to it's present borders with the addition of an enclave in Baltic Russia (East Prussia).\n\nThe expansion of the Nazis leading up to and during the Second World War was initially, at least in name, meant to reunite all German peoples, including some enclaves in the modern day Czeck Republic (though the whole of that region was annexed) and the whole of Austria, thereby leading to the Third Reich. Although to a certain extent this expansion was tolerated by the League of Nations as allowing an ethnic group their own united government (part of what was then termed "self-determination"), once the Nazis invaded Poland (a non-German state) the Second World War began. \n\nAfter the Second World War, Germany was divided into zones of occupation by the Allies. Britain, France, and the United States pooled their controlled zones into what would become West Germany, while Soviet Russia had other plans for it's zone and remained seperate, leading to the development of East Germany. German states were limited to modern borders; Austria was made independent, Czeckoslovakia was remade, and Russia claimed East Prussia for itself to this day. German Reunification following the Cold War followed various aspects of the collapse of Soviet power, including most dramatically the fall of the Berlin Wall on Nov 9, 1989. Reunification of East and West was formalized on Oct 3, 1990, creating the modern German state.
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Berlin is the capital city and a single state of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is the country's largest city in area and population, and the second most populous city in the European Union.
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In the first attempt to create a democratic and unified Germany, leaders of the 1848 Revolution adopted the tricolor flag in the National Assembly or Frankfurt Parliament. \n\nThe flag was not actually used until 1918 when the German National Assembly of the democratic Weimar Republic adopted it officially. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he abolished the tricolor flag. \n\nIn 1950, the flag was reintroduced by the German Parliament as the official symbol for the Federal Republic of Germany.
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To me Franz Beckenbauer and the whole Organization Committee have done an extraordinary job. The motto "zu Gast bei Freunden" is not just a motto, but it is lived every single second - I'm sure this WC will make history, deutsche Qualitätsarbeit eben ;)
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Militarism, Adolf Hitler want to re-arm Germany, Italy looking outward for conquest, Japan with recent naval victory against Russia in Vladivostok believes it can take the world as it had humiliate the Russian giant.\n\nAgression, believing that after WW1, no one wants another war, it can agress and bully neigbors, Germany start annexing Austro-Hungary, Japan use Manchuria as an excuse to be in China, Italy due to lack of any natural resource start venturing into Africa.\n\nNationalism, German leader lead the people believe that the suffering they have was a result of their defeat and was able to raise the nationalism spirit of the people, Japan with its emperor regard as the son of heaven, ralied the people to believe that they are no longer a small nation, they can anyone as they had shown in defeating the Russian navy. The Italian was ralied together to avoid a civil war.
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No. Nationalism itself will get outdated when humans become responsible and honest. After all when it comes to making money, how many people are concerned about nationalism? Money is the only religion that has no division of races, nations or even notions! Even religion and its development needs helluva lot of money. Communism was born for equitable distribution of money - to make the poor rich and rich the poor (equitable!!). Unfortunately, they did not have a proper capitalistic calculator and results were terrible - everyone except the accountants(members of the politbureau) became poor! Do you think people from those communist countries die for nationalism?? They are trying to run away to find jobs and money - so much for nationalism. So where is the question of good nationalism?
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Most wars involve some variation of "I WANT what you have and I think I can get away with TAKING it" which is Imperialism. \n\nNationalism is the spin-doctoring brow-beating that ENABLES Imperialism\n\nNow do your OWN research for your take-home essay question as to WHY Hitler, Hirohito, Stalin, Mussolini, Churchill, Roosevelt (and the people who put them in power) roll the dice with OUR lives.