The Effects on Anti Germanism
Alot of thing were effected by anti germanism.World war 1 effected the world in all different ways.Already in the course of WW1 the later communist leader Karl Liebknecht strongly opposed the growing national mood and the erosion of internationalism in the German (and European) social-democracy stating “Der Hauptfeind steht im eigenen Land” (the most dangerous enemy is to be found in your own country). But such views remained minoritarian. A kind of (inter)nationalism, which does not question the concept of nation states as such – if it is not a kind of nationalism itself – remained dominant in the German left for a long time.The xenophobic outbursts and the growing nationalism after the German “reunification” in 1990 made the simplified old-school-left distinction between a progressive working-class versus a reactionary upper-class more and more ridiculous. Those burning down the homes of refugees, waving German flags and shouting fascist slogans were for the most part members of the working-class. The dark shadows of the German past became more and more threatening and a new and accurate study of German history – that is to say German national socialism – was an obvious consequence for some in the German left.
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