revanchism
Revanchism describes a political attitude that aims at violent revenge (French: revanche ) for military and political defeat or the annulment of peace conditions or treaties . The pursuit of peaceful and amicable changes to peace conditions, on the other hand, is called treaty revisionism .
In France , revanchism (French: revanchisme ) describes an extremely nationalist political trend that has existed since the defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870/71 , which aimed to recapture Alsace-Lorraine and thus the Rhine border . From 1902 this political tendency was no longer extremely represented in the National Assembly, but only occasionally included in the political programs of parties.
In the Weimar Republic , the German nationalist and monarchist associations, which had succumbed to revanchism, fought the results of the Peace Treaty of Versailles and the associated German institutions and foreign powers, in particular France, England and Poland. After World War II, the term served as a pejorative catchphrase for the opponents of the Oder-Neisse border and the loss of the eastern territories of the German Empire . In the GDR , the term "revanchism" with reference to the defense of public property against private restitution claims from West Germany was an integral part of the political terminology of the SED . It was used as a political battle term against the West German “ class enemy ”, against the federal government , against associations of expellees who did not accept the loss of their homeland after the Second World War , and against parties like the CDU / CSU , which did not make the GDR a state wanted to acknowledge.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Propylaea History of Europe , 1977, Volume 5 by Theodor Schieder .
- ↑ See also treatise of the French National Library: The new publication "La Revanche" quickly disappeared .