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BRITISH IDENTITY AND THE GERMAN OTHER A Dissertation ...

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stereotypes which did not involve any real social interaction but instead promoted either<br />

idealized, sentimental and unthreatening images of Anglo-German affinity or a reactionary<br />

iconoclasm that demonized Germany as Britain’s polar opposite and arch nemesis. In a narrower<br />

sense, which nevertheless resonated in the press, the strained relations between King Edward VII<br />

and his nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II, who personified many of the worst aspects of New Germany,<br />

certainly suffered from an excess of forced familiarity on the kaiser’s part.<br />

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