Nationalism can be seen as the want of a people to live independently from the rule or influence of other nations.Throughout the 19th century ... also were part of a German volk (people).

Prussia's development as a successful, modern industrial state gave hope to German nationalists. Economically, unification through the Zollverein economic alliance of 1834 had been a success.

One of the most powerful political forces in Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries ... Nazi Germany’s persecution of the Jews. A second distortion of nationalism comes when autocratic ...