Germanisation | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2018-12-06

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Germanisation


00:00:49 1 Forms
00:02:22 2 Historical Germanisation
00:02:32 2.1 Early
00:03:49 2.2 Linguistic influences
00:04:55 2.3 In the Austrian Empire
00:05:52 2.4 In Prussia
00:07:11 2.4.1 18th century
00:08:15 2.4.2 Situation in the 19th century
00:12:26 2.5 Prussian Lithuanians
00:13:13 2.6 Polish coal miners in the Ruhr Valley
00:15:26 3 Under the Third Reich
00:15:35 3.1 Germanisation in the east
00:15:44 3.1.1 Plans
00:17:54 3.1.2 Selection and expulsion
00:21:19 3.1.3 Settlement and Germanisation
00:23:01 3.1.4 In Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union
00:26:07 4 USSR
00:27:14 4.1 Eastern workers
00:27:47 4.2 Children
00:29:20 4.3 Western Germanisation
00:31:21 5 After World War II



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Germanisation (also spelled Germanization) is the spread of the German language, people and culture. It was a central plank of German conservative thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries, during a period when conservatism and Ethno-nationalism went hand-in-hand. In linguistics, Germanisation also occurs when a word from the German language is adopted into a foreign language.
Under the policies of states such as the Teutonic Order, Austria, the German Empire, and Nazi Germany, non-Germans were often prohibited from using their native language, and had their traditions and culture suppressed. In addition, colonists and settlers were used to upset the population balance. During the Nazi era Germanisation turned into a policy of ethnic cleansing and later into the genocide of some non-German ethnic groups.