Pan-Germanism
noun
ˈpan+
plural -s
1
: a chiefly 19th century movement having as its principal aim the political union of all Germans
2
: a 20th century doctrine of German racial superiority and world domination by stages of imperial expansion
Word History
Etymology
French pangermanisme (translation of German alldeutschtum), from pan- + germanisme Germanism, from Germanie Germany (from Latin Germania land occupied by the Germanic peoples in western Europe in Roman times) + -isme -ism