Alldeutscher Verband (German for "All German Union" or "Pangermanic League", 1891-1939) was a German far-right organization which promoted pangermanism and imperialism, created in 1891 in protest to the exchange of Heligoland for Zanzibar. Ernst Hasse was its first president, and was succeeded by Heinrich Class in 1908. The Alldeutsche Verband was dissolved in 1939. Far right, extreme right, ultra-right, radical right, or hard right are terms used to discuss the relative position a group or person occupies within a political spectrum. ... The hard-to-translate word völkisch has connotations of folksy, folkloric, and populist. ... See also colonialism Imperialism is a policy of extending control or authority over foreign entities as a means of acquisition and/or maintenance of empires. ... 1891 (MDCCCXCI) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Heligoland (in German, Helgoland and in North Frisian, Lun, Hålilönj) is a small German archipelago in the North Sea. ... Map of Zanzibars main island Zanzibar (IPA pronunciation: ), as used today, is the collective name for two East African islands off mainland Tanzania: Unguja (also called Zanzibar) and Pemba. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

The Alldeutsche Verband aim was to protest against government decisions which could weaken Germany. A strong element of its ideology included social darwinism. The Pangermanic League wanted to uphold German racial hygiene and were against breeding with so-called inferior races like the Jews. The agitations of the Alldeutschen influenced the German government and helped undermine the German foreign position which was build up by Bismarck. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Racial hygiene (often labeled a form of scientific racism) is the selection, by a government, of the most physical, intellectual and moral persons to raise the next generation (selective breeding) and a close alignment of public health with eugenics. ... Alternate meanings: See Bismarck (disambiguation). ...

The Alldeutschen had an enormous influence on the German government during World War I, when they opposed democratization and were in favour of unlimited submarine war. Opponents of the Alldeutschen were called cowards. Main figures of the Alldeutsche Verband founded the Vaterlandspartei in 1917 after the request of the majority of the German parliament to begin peace negotiations with the allies. Combatants Allies: Serbia, Russia, France, Romania, Belgium, British Empire, United States, Italy, and others Central Powers: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, Ottoman Empire Casualties Military dead: 5 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total of dead: 8 million Military dead: 4 million Civilian deaths: 3 million Total dead: 7 million The First... German UC-1 class World War I submarine A model of Gunter Priens Unterseeboot 47 (U-47), German WWII Type VII diesel-electric hunter-killer (SSK) submarine USS Virginia, a Virginia-class nuclear attack (SSN) submarine A submarine is a specialized watercraft that can operate underwater. ...

After World War One, the Alldeutsche Verband supported general Ludendorff in his accusation against democrats and socialists that they had betrayed Germany and made the Germans lose the war. According to Ludendorff and the Alldeutschen, the army had nothing to be blamed for. In reality, Ludendorff had declared himself that the war was lost in October 1918, before the German November Revolution. This accusation is called the Dolchstoßlegende ("stab in the back legend"). General Erich Ludendorff Erich Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as Erich von Ludendorff) (April 9, 1865 – December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, noted as a general during World War I. Ludendorff was born in Kruszewnia near Posen, Prussia (now PoznaÅ„, Poland). ... This article describes the November 1918 revolution in Germany. ... Magazine title from 1924, example of a propaganda illustration in support of the legend The Dolchstoßlegende, (German dagger-thrust legend, often translated in English as stab-in-the-back legend) refers to a social mythos and persecution-propaganda theory popular in post-World War I Germany. ...

See also

• Colonialism
• Pangermanism