germanophobic

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adjective

Opposed to Germany.

Scrabble 25

Meanings

germanophobic1

adjectivegermanophobic (comparative more germanophobic, superlative most germanophobic)

comparative more germanophobic · superlative most germanophobic

  1. alternativeAlternative form of Germanophobic.

    As understandable as his annoyance about this malign misuse of his sketch may be, both ways of interpreting his caricature remain open, one being undeniably germanophobic.

    2006, Werner Delanoy, Laurenz Volkmann, Cultural Studies in the EFL Classroom, page 162
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    The rapid West German rise to become Europe's most successful economy in the 1950s and 1960s, overtaking the far less dynamic British performance was again the pretext for media provocation of germanophobic emotions.

    1999, Reinhard Tenberg, Intercultural Perspectives, page 32

    In Estonia and Latvia, Stalinism confronted medieval Hanseatic cities for the first time, and these clearly belonged to the German sphere of architectural influence. After the war, the Soviet Union was a completely germanophobic society, whose propaganda continually painted German fascists as enemies who were the root of all evil.

    2001, Centropa: A Journal of Central European Architecture and Related Arts, page 117

Germanophobic2

adjectiveGermanophobic (comparative more Germanophobic, superlative most Germanophobic)

comparative more Germanophobic · superlative most Germanophobic · alternative germanophobic

  1. Opposed to Germany.

    For some Germanophobic historians the Nazi experience still serves as the pivot around which explanations about German history as a whole are formulated.

    2006, Dennis Sherman, Western Civilization, page 186
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    Unfortunately, however, the sheer bulk of this literature with its tiresome repetition of the same Germanophobic theme makes it impossible for one to ignore it.

    1966, Rampart College Graduate School, Rampart Journal of Individualist Thought - Volume 2, Issue 1, page 85

    The initial legislation aimed at controlling the German populations of the individual territories but, as the war progressed and Germanophobic resentment increased, the aim increasingly became elimination, whether this consisted of preventing the use of the German language, confiscating German property, or deporting Germans and their families, although the latter two policies did begin to evolve in the early stages of the conflict.

    2020, Stefan Manz, Panikos Panayi, Enemies in the Empire

Origin

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