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Germanophobia and the hatred of the German people is a bitter concept that has significantly developed and increased in its spite throughout the 20th century. Political leaders, both of domestic and international status, have over the last hundred years fuelled a raging river of anti-German and Germanophibic remarks which has watered down into society at large and continued its use.

It may seem arrogant to use the term we but in terms of hatred we all think we know what it is - its so easy to say "I hate you" but it is a word that is used all too freely when the meaning of the individuals' words are little more than "not liking".

The English language version of the Encarta Online Dictionary defines the word "hate" in the following way;

"to dislike somebody or something intensely, often in a way that evokes feelings of anger, hostility, or animosity"

But what is the difference between hatred and Germanophobia? The Collins World English Dictionary states Germanophobia in the following terms

"the hatred of germany or her people"

The Free Online Dictionary also lists Germanophobia in the following manner

"intense fear or hatred of Germany, its people, language, etc

So taking sense of the word literally, Germanophobia is little more than two doses of hatred, or more basically put, hating the German people twice as much as other cultures and groups of people who identify with each other. Throughout 20th century history there has been some glaring examples of Germanophobia and hatred of the German people which has been dragged into the 21st century with a recent report from the Local: Germany's News in English Here, dated 3rd March 2011, which states that a;

"German-born diplomat who was fired from his job in Paris with the UK's Department for International Development (DfiD) is suing the British government for racial discrimination."

He told the Local that

"During his time as the UK's deputy permanent delegate to UNESCO he was the target of racial slurs and unfair treatment."

He further claimed to The Local that;

"These racial slurs, such as being called a Nazi were ignored and even tolerated in the office"

We would like to say that it is surprising to see such behaviour coming from a government office of international standing, but we cant as it is just another headline in a long list of spitefull comments and actions by politicians and leaders stretching back to the late 1800's when Germany formsally became Germany.

The following details are not an exhaustive list of Germanophobes or those who hate the german people but seeks to demonstrate the wide-ranging and far-reaching attitudes which have inevitably had a negative impact unpon society's already  damaged morals - morals which now allow for wide-scale rioting and the continual reference to the 1966 World Cup match to be seen in the same way as war and destruction.

Many Germans in the workplace can expect a so-called friendly Heil Hitler and appropriate salute: Indeed the British may feel it is funny and that it is normal workplace banter, but to the Germans, who, by virtue of their ancestral roots, are hard working and dedicated it is nothing less than insultive and indeed it is a HATE CRIME.

Michael Sontheimer recites several recent incidents involving the so-called Krautbashing in the workplace..

"...Marketing director Ralph Kappler was once asked by one of his superiors in the London office of an international communications company whether the seats in Lufthansa planes were still covered in human skin. When kappler put in a protest, he was ostracised and later fired..."

"...computer expert Jens Puhle from Berlin is still awaiting the outcome of his racial discrimination case in Bristol (UK). He and a German fellow-worker at Lotorola endured daily taunts of "Oberstaurnbannfuhrer, Hitlers Henchmen and f**king German P**ck. After a year of this abuse Puhle could take it no longer and resigned."

Opposition to German re-Unification

Perhaps one of the most prolific examples of Germanophobia in the ranks of British politics comes in the form of the former Iron Lady, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was bitterly opposed to German re-unification. During an event which to many meant freedom from tyranny, the fall of the Iron Curtain and the subsequent re-unification of Germany drew butter scorn from the Prime Minister.

Thatcher bitterly opposed Germany's re-uniofication: Former German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, has never forgotten the hostility he faced at a European meeting on December 8th, 1989, claims German newspaper Der Spiegel. Ten days earlier he had unveiled a 10-point plan for German re-unification but this had unexpectedly been met with the blatant skepticism of Europes leaders. In his memoirs the former chancellor described how British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher told the heads of state who had gathered for dinner

"We beat the Germans twice...and now they're back"

It is no secret that Thatcher was a bitter opponent of German re-unification - who would she be so against it if she didnt hold Germanophobic views? It's no secret that Thatcher was a bitter opponent of German reunification. But new documents released by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office show how she insisted that her government resist the historic development.

She repeatedly reined back then-Foreign Minister Douglas Hurd and Christopher Mallaby, Britain's ambassador in Bonn, who wanted to signal his support for reunification on the day the wall came down.

Mallaby wrote to Hurd on that day -- November 9, 1989 -- saying it was "in our interests" to respond positively to developments in Germany. But when Hurd visited Berlin a few days later, he dutifully towed Thatcher's line, saying that reunification was "not currently on the agenda."

The 500-page tome of letters and memos released this week date back to between April 1989 and November 1990. They reveal, for example, how then-French President Francois Mitterrand, speaking in a private conversation with his British counterpart, fuelled her mistrust of the Germans. Over lunch in the Elysee Palace on January 20, 1990, Mitterrand warned Thatcher that reunification would result in Germany gaining more European influence than Hitler ever had.

His gloomy forecasts included

 "a return of the "bad" Germans, "

according to previously secret notes made by Thatcher's foreign policy adviser, Charles Powell.

Even during the last war, World War II, Germanophes were at work in British politics planning the total demise, even genocide of the German people: Winston Churchill for example, was no fan of the German people before, during, or after World War II.

Winston Churchill wanted to "drench" Germany with poison Gas, Eisenhower wanted to starve them

In a secret wartime memorandum, Winston Churchill told his advisors that he wanted to "drench" Germany with poison gas. Churchilld July 1944 memo to his chief of staff General Hastings was reproduced in the August-September 1985 issue of American Heritage magazine. The four page note began;

"I want you to think very seriously over this question of poison gas,"

Britains wartime leader continued

"It is absurd to consider morality on this topic when everybody used it (gas) in the last war without a word of complaint from the moralists or the church.

On the other hand, in the last war the bombing of open cities was regarded as forbidden. Now everybody does it as a matter of course. It is simply a question of fashion changing as she does between long and short skirts for women."

Churchills directive bluntly stated

"I want a cold-blooded calculation made as to how it would pay to use poison gas...One really must not be bound within silly conventions of the mind whether they be those that ruled in the last war or those in reverse which rule in this."

Specifically, he proposed

"We could drench the cities of the Ruhr and many other cities in Germany in such a way that most of the population would be requiring medical attention...it may be several weeks or even months before i shall ask you to drench Germany with poison gas...and if we do it, let us do it one hundred per cent. In the meantime, i want the matter studied in cold bood by sensible people and not by the particular set of psalm-singing uniformed defeatests which one runs across now here, now there."

It is obvious from this and other sources that Churchill wanted to finish of the German cities who had survived by callous carpet-bombing campaigns. Those who survived bombs falling and gas in the air were still targeted via the most basic need of man. Plans were afoot to drop cow cakes - poisoned cakes which cows would eat thius poisoning themselves and those who subsequently ate the meat.

Whereas Thatcher opposed the German people and Churchill wanted to kill them, American Commander in the Field, Dwight D. Eisenhower wanted to starve and ill-treat them in a sadistic attempt at allowing the German people to starve to death. The subsequent President of the Land of the Free, the United States of America had no compassion towards civilians who had been forcibly expelled from their homes or who had fled the rapidly advancing and brutal Red Army.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Chief of Staff of the US Army, 1945 - 48 callously stated;

"The coming months will be a time of trial, with shortages of food, fuel, housing and transport. No coal will be available to heat your homes this winter. You will have to leave your homes and go out into the fields, without argument, to provide food for yourselves this winter. These are all your problems. Their solution depends on your work. In other words, "I don't care if you starve or freeze to death."

Let us consider a few recent perceptions of the German people throughout the mass media. Hugo Young in the Guardian newspaper stated that the;

"British pubic, whether journalists or poiticians, are more prepared to demonise the Germans than any other people i know are prepared to vilify any other nation than i have heard of, with the possible exception of Arabs and Jews"

AA Gill in the Sunday Times newspaper argued;

"Admit it, we all hate the Germans" 

When Cardinal Ratzinger became the new Pope of the Roman Catholic Church the Sun newspaper of 20th April, 2005, broke the following Headline

"From Hitler Youth to Papa Ratzi"