Ger·mano·phile
(ˌ)jər-ˈma-nə-ˌfī(-ə)l 
: approving or favoring the German people and their institutions and customs
: one that is Germanophile
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Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2022
Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
Quartet shows that continuities, rather than ruptures, have defined the history of Turkish autocracy over the past century: Germanophile Young Turks were as tyrannical as Abdülhamid.
—Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2020
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Adjective
He is preoccupied by the Germanophile Ukrainian nationalism of the 1940s.
—Liana Fix, Foreign Affairs, 4 Mar. 2022
Noun
But like several tsarist predecessors, Stalin was a Germanophile, admiring that country’s industry and science—in a word, its modernity.
—Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2017
Quartet shows that continuities, rather than ruptures, have defined the history of Turkish autocracy over the past century: Germanophile Young Turks were as tyrannical as Abdülhamid.
—Kaya Genç, The New Republic, 30 Dec. 2020
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“Germanophile.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Germanophile. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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