"Running head: THE RISE OF GERMANY’S NATIONALISM FROM IT’S CULTURE 1The rise of Germany’s nationalism from its cultureAuthor’s nameInstitutional affiliation Running head: THE RISE OF GERMANY’S NATIONALISM FROM IT’S CULTURE 2The term Nationalism refers to the desire of the people to live independently withoutbeing controlled or ruled by other nations. According to Suval (1975), “nationalism was basedon the popular culture practiced by Germans natives” (p.12). The German nationalism andxenophobia were not intense. Nevertheless, they came from different origins. Unlike Britishnation, Germany was a small nation, which was formed in the year 1871 after the unification oftwenty-six states dominantly inhabited by Germany-speaking group. The German nationalismor Pan-Germanism was one of the political devices that united these states. The top leaders whoruled after1971 relied on nationalist of the people to consolidate, to gain support,and tostrengthen the newly formed nation. It is evident that the rise of Germany was by differentcultural aspect which includes, Moroccan crisis and Aryan superiority, German eugenics andFreidrich Nietzsche works, media as well as political propaganda.’Regarding the use of media, German culture changed to gain supremacy over Britishwho had already extended their power in various parts of the world. From the poetry of Goetheto the music of Richard Wagner the integration of German community was promoted. Germannationalism was also controlled by forces, and each state was defined and reflected in the basisof the military strength. The new leader Kaiser, Wilhelm II, was a representative of this newlyformed nation. The states were new, patriotic, obsessed with fighting supremacy and hadimperial expansion over the other countries. Kaiser was proud ofGermany achievement.However, he became nervous about the future of the nation fearing other powerful states thusbecoming depressed about the success the country. Wilhelm was greedy on how the Britain hadacquired vast empires and enormous marine power, but he believed that the British themselveswere as well greedy and hypocritical. The British administrations administered the world's mostextensive territories yet scheming against German colonial extension in Africa and Asia. Using Running head: THE RISE OF GERMANY’S NATIONALISM FROM IT’S CULTURE 3media, the German targeted the British in the pre-war German press, where Britain was paintedas expansionist, egotistic, greedy and fixated with money (Snyder & Mazal, 1996, p.133).Moroccan crisis and Aryan superiority was another factor which led to the rising ofGerman nationalism. During the first Moroccan crisis, the Kaiser and German administrationhad no substantive interest in Moroccan territory, and as a result, it gave support to the Sultan.Germany did this mainly to provoke the anger of France and Britain. Ergang, (1976) studyfound that “the Germans intended to become superior through friendship to carry out the tradewith the king."(p.56). However, Germany was humiliated since French and British had a mutualgoal of controlling Morocco. It was soon evident that French took over the control of Moroccofollowing the agreement of the international conference that took place in Algeciras, Spain. Themembers agreed that all the colonizers including Germany could carry out the trade withMorocco. The second crisis arose when France sent troops to guard the sultan, and on the otherhand, the Germany authority sent theirs. It proved that Germany was confident of having thesame military control as that of French over the kingdom. Regarding Aryan superiority, Hitlerprovided an ideology which traced the origin of Aryan race and concluded that they were one ofthe superior Nordic people living in England, Denmark and Germany. The southern branch ofthe Aryan Nordic population represented the Germany community who later united to form onenation. The nation also employed Eugenic pseudo-science mainly to eliminate unproductiveindividuals in the society and to leave the productive ones. Hitler and some other academicindividuals believed that Germany society had sick individuals whose bloodstream wascontaminated by degenerate and unwanted elements. According to Smith, those individuals whowere spoiling the Germans were the racially impure, the mentally infirm, the disabled ones, the "