In Ehrenburg's life and writings, the passionate Francophiliathe legacy of his Parisian youth, his intimacy with the international avant-gardecountered the virulent
Germanophobia of his wartime articles.
In other entries, he claims Mrs Thatcher had bouts of "
Germanophobia", noting "she seems obsessed by a feeling that German-speakers are going to dominate the [European] Community."
And both appealed to
Germanophobia, focusing on the European debt crisis and Germany's insistence on austerity.
While Kinna is right to look deeper than Kropotkin's alleged
Germanophobia to explain his decision to back the Allies in 1914, her argument is unconvincing.
This will force all parties, including pro-European ones, to engage in a discussion about the potential merits of leaving the currency union and it will encourage political posturing, especially in France, where there is an undercurrent of
Germanophobia that is easy to rekindle.
Bailey, "The British Protestant Theologians in the First World War:
Germanophobia Unleashed," Harvard Theological Review 77 (1984), 195-221; Charles E.
"On Europe's barometer,
Germanophobia is rising but criticism against Germany is unfair.
Germanophobia spilled over into the February days, so that support of the revolution came to be seen as a proper, patriotic, anti-German act.
"We must be careful not to appear to be following Germany s lead," said Lionnel Luca, a UMP lawmaker, warning against the "whiff of
Germanophobia exuded by the Socialist Party for political reasons."
synonymous with "the enemy," intense
Germanophobia and spy
Just as anti-Semitism inflected the representational models of French lesbianism in literature as a sign of larger political anxieties during and after the Dreyfus Affair, an escalating strain of nationalism further expanded in the French imaginary to inflame a certain
Germanophobia in the early twentieth century.
The euro is currently the major cause of both discord in Europe and a wave of
Germanophobia not seen since 1945.