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Germanization

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Ger·man·ize  (jûrm-nz)
v. Ger·man·ized, Ger·man·iz·ing, Ger·man·iz·es
v.tr.
1. To give a German quality to.
2. Archaic To translate into German.
v.intr.
To have or adopt German customs or attitudes.

German·i·zation (-m-n-zshn) n.
German·izer n.


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During Bismarck's Kulturkampf, the Kaiserreich advocated a policy of Germanization that depreciated Sorbian, and again in Nazi Germany after 1937 it was forbidden to write or sing in Sorbian.
Although women in Prussian Poland were politically mobilized by nationalist organizations to counter the pressures of germanization, the women's movement there consequently failed to embrace autonomous feminist goals; Rudolf Jaworski, "Polish Women and the Nationality Conflict in the Province of Posen at the Turn of the Century" in Women in Polish Society, 53-70.
The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity presents a series of related theses concerning the social and cultural evolution of Christianity during its first millennium.
 
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