German nationalism

German composer (1813–1883)

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thumb|250px|Map of German dialects in Central Europe before 1938 Pan-Germanism ( or '), also occasionally known as Pan-Germanicism, is a pan-nationalist political idea. Pan-Germanism seeks to unify all ethnic Germans, German-speaking people, and possibly also non-German Germanic peoples – into a single nation-state known as Greater Germany'''.thumb|Distribution map - reconstruction attempt of Germanic settlement areas

official name for the German nation state from 1871 to 1945, and name of Germany until 1949

thumb|Two soldiers of an Habsburg monarchy|Austrian Freikorps ([[David Morier, 1748)]] '''' (, "Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European paramilitary volunteer units that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. They effectively served as mercenaries or private military companies, regardless of their own nationality. In German-speaking countries, the first so-called ("free regiments", Freie Regimenter) were formed in the 18th century from native volunteers, enemy renegades, and deserters. These sometimes exotically equipped units served as infantry a

political and cultural ideology that promotes the unity of Germans and German-speakers into one unified nation state

district in the San Pedro Department of Paraguay

German weekly newspaper if the right-wing

1832 German festival

Volksgemeinschaft () is a German expression meaning "people's community", "folk community", "national community", or "racial community", depending on the translation of its component term Volk (cognate with the English word "folk"). This expression originally became popular during World War I as Germans rallied in support of the war, and many experienced "relief that at one fell swoop all social and political divisions could be solved in the great national equation". The idea of a Volksgemeinschaft was rooted in the notion of uniting people across class divides to achieve a national purpose, a

1806 work by Johann Gottlieb Fichte

political ideology

thumb|250px|Present day flag of Germany A Germanophile, Teutonophile, Teutophile, or Deutschophile is a person who is fond of German culture, German language, German people and Germany in general, or who exhibits German patriotism in spite of not being either an ethnic German or a German citizen. The love of the German way, called "Germanophilia" or "Teutonophilia", is the opposite of Germanophobia.

desire to be latter-day Roman Empire

literary work

periodical literature

2010 book by Thilo Sarrazin

Leitkultur () is a German concept, which can be translated as 'guiding culture' or 'leading culture', less literally as 'common culture', 'core culture' or 'basic culture'. The term was first introduced in 1998 by the German-Syrian sociologist Bassam Tibi and from 2000 onward the term figured prominently in the national political debate in Germany about national identity and immigration.

typographical dispute in 19th- and early 20th-century Germany

ideology that advocates a racial definition of national identity

thumb|Dem Deutschen Volke (), the dedication on the Reichstag building in [[Berlin]] The German noun Volk () translates to people, both uncountable in the sense of people as in a crowd, and countable (plural Völker) in the sense of a people as in an ethnic group or nation (compare the English term folk).

painting by Caspar David Friedrich, Weimarer Stadtschloss

Prussianism comprises the practices and doctrines of the Prussians, specifically the militarism and the severe discipline traditionally associated with the Prussian ruling class.

essay by Oswald Spengler

former youth organization of the party Alternative for Germany (AfD)

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German nationalist ideology

German extreme right-wing magazine

German right-wing political movement