With the help of an example highlight how anti-German sentiments ran high?
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"Germanophobia" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Germophobia.
Not to be confused with Anti-Germans (political current).
Destroy this mad brute—United States propaganda (Harry R. Hopps; 1917). This poster was released in 1917 by Harry Ryle Hopps, portraying Germany as a gorilla invading the United States having conquered Europe.[1]
Anti-German cartoon from Australia, Norman Lindsay, between 1914 and 1918
French postcard from the First World War era showing a caricature of emperor Wilhelm II attempting to devour the world; this French version was based on an Italian cartoon
British Anti-German poster, circa 1919, calling for boycott of German goods and depicting German businesspeople selling their products in Britain as "the other face" of German soldiers who committed atrocities during the 1914–1918 (British Empire Union poster)
Anti-German sentiment (or Germanophobia) is defined as an opposition to or fear of Germany, its inhabitants, its culture and the German language.[2] Its opposite is Germanophilia. The sentiment largely began with the mid-19th century unification of Germany, which made the new nation a rival to the Great Powers of Europe on economic, cultural, geopolitical and military grounds.
At the begin of the 20th century the Entente propaganda blamed Germany for starting World War 1, which greatly increased anti-German sentiments. The following role of Germany, to start World War 2 and being the primary perpetrator of the Holocaust, also fed anti-German sentiment amongst Germany's enemy countries and the citizens of those countries.
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THE ANTI GERMAN SENTIMENTS RAN HIGH CAN BE SEEN AS THE CAPITAL NAME OF RUSSIA THAT WAS ST.PETERSBURG WAS NAMED AFTER A GERMAN NAME PETROGRAD.