German nationalism
German nationalism is the idea that the different people who are seen as German belong together and should make one country. German nationalism started around 1770. At the start, there were many different small kingdoms and duchies, the German state only started to exist in the mid-19th century. German nationalism started with the Napoleonic wars, when France invaded the different German states. In the 19th century, the main question was whether to make a Germany that included the modern-day state of Austria, (seen as lesser German) or to make one that included it.
In the end Bismarck opted for a lesser German solution (which did not include Austria). This is through German Unification. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, they wanted to create a Greater Germany (including Austria). During this time, the people who were not seen as German were seen as Untermenschen (subhumans), and many were killed.
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The Reichsadler ("imperial eagle") from the coat of arms of Henry VI, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Germany, dated 1304. The Reichsadler is the predecessor of the Bundesadler, the heraldic animal of today's national emblem of (Germany).
Johann Gottfried Herder, the founder of the concept of nationalism itself, although he did not support its program
Philosopher Johann Gottlieb Fichte is considered along with Romantic poet-soldier Ernst Moritz Arndt as the founder of German nationalism.
Depiction of the session of the Frankfurt Parliament in 1848
Germania, painting by Philipp Veit, 1848
German colonial empire, the third largest colonial empire during the 19th century after the British and the French ones
Germany after the Treaty of Versailles:* Administered by the League of Nations* Annexed or transferred to neighboring countries by the treaty, or later via plebiscite and League of Nation action* Weimar Germany
Boundaries of the planned "Greater Germanic Reich"
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