noun
pan-Germanism
Historical political ideology advocating the unification of all German-speaking peoples under one nation-state, prominent in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
19世紀末、汎ゲルマン主義はドイツ統一の思想的背景の一つとなった。
In the late 19th century, pan-Germanism became one of the ideological backdrops for German unification.
Pan-Slavism, the parallel movement for Slavic peoples, often contrasted with pan-Germanism in 19th-century European politics.
Compound of 汎 (han, 'pan-') + ゲルマン (Geruman, 'Germanic') + 主義 (shugi, '-ism'), modeled on European terms like German 'Pangermanismus'.