kultur

alternative Kultur

1. uncountableGerman culture or civilization, especially seen as authoritarian or racist during the period of world wars (1914-18 and 1939-45)

   1963: so much rot spoken about their inferior kultur-position and our herrenschaft – but that was for the Kaiser and the businessmen at home — Thomas Pynchon, V.

1. alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of kultur.

   The bestialization produced by war and militant patriotism came openly to the front with all the horrors of savagery, rapine, deportation, atrocities, and the inhuman slaughter of millions of human beings for the glory of the Fatherland and Kultur and for "the making of the world fit for Democracy."

   1919, Boris Sidis, The Source and Aim of Human Progress