Meaning of Germanophobic | Babel Free

Definitions

Opposed to Germany.

Examples

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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