Germanizing

Streets and even houses were gradually renamed by the occupying Nazis as the steady "Germanizing" of the islands went on.

England Under Hitler Clarke, Comer 1961

He was suspected of "Germanizing" tendencies, very offensive to high churchmen, especially in philosophy and religion.

Lectures and Essays Goldwin Smith 1866

He acknowledges the influence exercised by the "'Germanizing' of Darwin, especially in Nietzsche, at least as he was caricatured by the Nazis.

Evolution News & Views 2009

These and other innovations of Reform Judaism conceptualized in the late 1840s to early 1850s by German-born and - trained rabbis should be interpreted as simultaneously Germanizing and Americanizing.

Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century. 2009

Cultural (material and symbolic) and social ethnicization of family life-styles allowed by increased middle-class affluence and new developments in household and entertainment technologies that had been introduced and managed by women included innovations such as the use of Jewish-American cookbooks for confirmation receptions, invitation dinners, and Purim dance parties, and family vacations in Germany (by now an ethnic rather than Germanizing activity).

Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century. 2009

Because of close ideological links with the Reform movement in Germany, however, the modernizing effects of American Reform Judaism, in this case, loosening home religious observance and letting women decide the scope and “grasp” of their piety, must be considered, during the early nineteenth century, as both Americanizing and Germanizing.

Assimilation in the United States: Nineteenth Century. 2009

Rosso is Germania, or the Austrian colony, composed of the authorities, the employés, and a few wealthy merchants, who have a crazy idea of Germanizing their little world, an impossible dream, for there are twelve thousand Italians in

The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton 2006

Once they beat us in the field and they took away and subjugated two of our provinces, almost killing the French spirit there and Germanizing to the utmost of their ability.

Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Stephen Graham 1929

It rendered forever impossible a return to Germanizing centralism.

The Governments of Europe Frederic Austin Ogg 1914

Germanizing influences that had been at work for centuries in what is now the eastern part of the German Empire were destroyed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913