From 1893 to 1899 Weber was a member of the Alldeutscher Verband ( Pan-German League ), an organisation that campaigned against the influx of the Polish workers ; the degree of Weber's support for the Germanisation of Poles and similar nationalist policies is still debated by modern scholars.

During the period of German Empire the Germanisation policies in Masuria became more effective ; children using Polish in playgrounds and classrooms were widely punished by corporal punishment, authorities tried to appoint Protestant pastors who would use German instead of Polish which resulted in protests of local population.

The interwar period was characterised by ongoing Germanisation policies, intensified especially under the Nazis

In some historical discourses, " Drang nach Osten " combines historical German settlement in Eastern Europe, medieval military expeditions like the ones of the Teutonic Knights, and Germanisation policies and warfare of Modern Age German states like the Nazi lebensraum concept.

Ethnic tensions were exacerbated by the Germanisation policies of the Berlin government and the anti-Catholic Kulturkampf measures enacted by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck.

However, in the course of the Prussian Germanisation policies under Governor Eduard Heinrich von Flottwell, they were replaced by Prussian commissioners.

Legislation and government policies in the Kingdom of Prussia sought a degree of linguistic and cultural Germanisation, while in the Imperial Germany a more intense form of cultural Germanisation was pursued, often with the explicit intention of reducing the influence of other cultures or institutions, such as the Catholic Church.

Prussian Lithuanians living in East Prussia experienced similar policies of Germanisation.

Germanisation policies were tightened during the 19th century, but even into the early 20th century the territories north and south / south-west of the Neman River contained a Lithuanian majority.

Under German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck renewed Germanisation policies began, such as an increase of police forces, a colonization commission, and the Kulturkampf.

The Polish language was eventually banned from schools and government offices as part of the Germanisation policies.

He was a strong supporter of Germanisation and standardised schooling policies, which by some was seen as directed against ethnic Polish Prussians in the region.

The society played a great role in preserving Polish language and culture in the German occupied areas of Poland and reverting the Germanisation policies.

Seweryn Pieniężny, the chief editor of " Gazeta Olsztyńska ", who opposed Germanisation of Masuria, was interned.

In 1871 it was included in Imperial Germany and was subject to Germanisation.

The plan envisaged differing percentages of the various conquered nations undergoing Germanisation, expulsion into the depths of Russia, and other fates, the net effect of which would be to ensure that the conquered territories would be Germanized.

In 1170 they acknowledged the suzerainty of the Holy Roman Empire, leading to Germanisation and assimilation over the following centuries.

Several hundred women and over 100 children were deported to concentration camps ; a few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed to death.

However, with the end of von Bismarck's rule and the advent of Leo von Caprivi, the pressure for Germanisation was lessened and many German landowners feared that this would lead to lessening the German control over the Polish areas and in the end deprive Germany of what they saw as a natural reservoir of workforce and land.

* Germanisation attempts pursued by Frederick the Great in territories of Partitioned Poland

Millions of non-Germans subjects in the German Empire, like the Polish, Danish and French minorities, were discriminated against, and a policy of Germanisation was implemented.

After Germanisation, the population of Western Pomerania started to use the Low German dialects.

* Category IV: Persons of German ancestry who had become " polonized " but were supportive of " Germanisation ".

The city was subjected to heavy Germanisation and German craftsmen banned Poles from attending any practice allowing them to work as members of guilds.

Ludendorff planned German settlement and Germanisation in conquered areas combined with expulsions of the native population, and envisioned an eastern German empire whose resources would be used in future war with Great Britain and United States Ludendorff's plans went as far as making Crimea a German colony

At the Nuremberg Trials no evidence was found of direct involvement by the Lebensborn organisation in the kidnapping of thousands of Polish children who were subjected to " Germanisation " by sending them to re-education camps and fostering them out to German families.

Further, in the German and Russian partitions, all remaining centers of learning were subject to Germanisation and Russification ; only in territories acquired by Austria was there relatively little governmental intervention in the curriculum.

The state itself was led by German nationalism and Bismarck viewed Poles as one of the chief threat to German power ; as he declared The Polish question is to us a question of life and death and wanted Polish nation to disappear in private going as far as expressing his wish to exterminate Poles As a result the Polish population faced economic, religious and political discrimination the Germanisation of their territories was promoted and in places where Poles and Germans lived a virtual apartheid existed.

* Germanisation is defined as either the spread of the German language and culture, or the adaptation of a word to the German language.

Germanisation ( also spelled Germanization ) is both the spread of the German language, people and culture either by force or assimilation, and the adaptation of a foreign word to the German language in linguistics.

Another form of Germanisation is the forceful imposition of German culture, language and people upon non-German people, Slavs in particular.

Relations of early forms of Germanisation was described by German monks in manuscripts like Chronicon Slavorum.

Another form of Germanisation was the relation between the German state and Polish coal miners in the Ruhr area.

In linguistics, Germanisation usually means the change in spelling of loanwords to the rules of the German language — for example the change from the imported word bureau to Büro.

When judging Germanisation, one has to decide whether this was seen as an act of ameliorating the economy of the country or the aim of repressing or eliminating the local language and culture.

The pressure of Germanisation encountered growing resistance from the Polish population of Krajna, who clung to their native language and the Roman Catholic religion.

It is often argued that because of the efforts of the Commission of National Education the Polish language and culture did not disappear during the Partitions of Poland, despite heavy Russification and Germanisation.

Its main goal was to promote education in Polish language among the people, especially the lower classes, and to revert the Germanisation practices of the Prussian authorities.

" In reality, the liberalism some of the Young Latvians looked to in the East was soon in full retreat under Alexander III of Russia, and the Latvian language was to be more severely threatened by Russification than by Germanisation.

Laws were passed aimed at Germanisation of the Polish inhabited areas and 154, 000 colonists were settled by the Prussian Settlement Commission before World War I.

To resist Germanisation, Polish activists started to publish the newspaper " Gazeta Grudziądzka " in 1894.

The Polish population was pushed by Germanisation to rural villages, although some remained in the town contributed to the economic revival of the city.

However, it was believed that for instance the Polish people were too patriotic and would ultimately resist Germanisation, what resulted in the Generalplan Ost, according to which most of the Slavs from East-Central Europe were destined to be expelled from the European continent by the Third Reich.

The Kulturkampf had a major impact on the regions of Prussia with a Polish population by instituting a policy of Germanisation of Poznan.

Despite Germanisation efforts, the Polish population remained the majority, however, it decreased to 64 % of population by 1910.

Between 1842 and 1845 a Masurian newspaper " Przyjaciel Ludu Łecki " ( Łeck's Friend of the People ) was printed in the city, whose aim was to resist Germanisation and cultivate Polish folk traditions as well as educate the local rural population In May of 1845 Polish resistance movement in the city was organized by Kazmierz Szulc, whose aim was to prepare local Polish youth for an uprising.

He awakened Kashubian self-identity, thereby opposing both Germanisation and Prussian authority, and Polish nobility and clergy.

The goals of the Commission were the financial weakening of Polish landowners, and ensuring Germanisation of Polish cities as well as rural areas.

* Organized and systematic destruction of Polish culture, plunder of Polish cultural heritage, Germanisation of the country and the Polish people, illegal appropriation of public property.

Germanisation policy in schools also took the form of abuse of Polish children by Prussian officials ( see Września ).