No"--for the other had protested--"your
Pan-Germanism is no more imaginative than is our Imperialism over here.
In a 1945 speech given at the United States Library of Congress, he attested that both the "
Pan-Germanism of Bismarck and the death-driven megalomania of Hitler" were the externalized expressions of the inward passion and reverie of (late) German Romanticism.
In 1924, after his release from prison, Hitler became really very popular among the people by attacking the Treaty of Versailles and promoting
Pan-Germanism, anti-semitism and anti-communism with charismatic oratory, just like Buhari did at the NBA conference.
Attendees also proudly dress in the colors and regalia of their Burschenschaften--student fraternities founded during the 19th century, some of which espouse
pan-Germanism. Once described as a "networking event" for the European far-right, this year's gala drew 8,000 antifascist demonstrators to the streets.
The centre-left party is "red," the center-right one "black," the far right "blue," and the greens, of course, "green."
Pan-Germanism may be out of fashion in both countries, but the analogies are too obvious to pass up.
I do, contrary to Perdue's assertions, demonstrate how such invented traditions as
Pan-Germanism, Pan-Slavism, Pan-Turkism, Pan-Islam, and a Confucian revival represent alternative paths to nation-state building and attempt to explain why they failed.
(12) In political terms his view translated into a combination of conservative Catholicism and German nationalism (or
Pan-Germanism), again in contrast to the cosmopolitan perspective of liberals and socialists (where "cosmopolitan" was often nothing more than a code for "Jewish").
They are either too muddled (pan-Arabism), too dangerous (
pan-Germanism), or both (pan-Asianism).
The German colonialism and imperialism relevant to Nazism and the Holocaust was not to be found in Africa, as commonly supposed, but in the
Pan-Germanism and Pan-Slavism of Central Europe.