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The goal of the organization, German Government officials say, is to "Germanize" those areas with new settlers.

The carrier's only hope of maintaining that business is to "Germanize" its operations, as Sir Colin put it.

"The Germans did help Germanize the United States," Professor Tichenor replied.

Although every Gauleiter was expected to fully Germanize their assigned area by any method, Greiser emphasized brutality to achieve this goal.

Upon his appointment, Heydrich told his aides "[w]e will Germanize the Czech vermin."

He cited Benjamin Franklin's complaint that German immigrants in Pennsylvania had made his home "a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them."

In multi-national Austria, on the contrary, the Basic Law of the State (Staatsgrundgesetz) of 1867 declared all nations of Imperial Austria equal, and the Germans as the leading nation did not try to Germanize the others.

According to Speer, while Himmler intended to eventually Germanize these peoples completely, Hitler intended not to "infringe on their individuality" (that is, their native languages), so that in the future they would "add to the diversity and dynamism" of his empire.

But they are as American as Benjamin Franklin, who once asked, "Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them ...?

In order to expand the Lebensraum of the German people the Slavic populations of Eastern Europe were intended to be wiped out through a combined process of extermination, expulsion, starvation, and enslavement that would effectively Germanize these territories in the long run.