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  • Not only does Websters, but American Heritage, and the OED recognize spelling variations of flak (the germanized term) & flack (the anglicized term) .... however, there are more important issues:

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  • No wonder if such intercourse succeeded finally in uniting those whom nature had so strongly separated, and in creating in Belgium a new type of civilization neither Celtic nor Frankish, neither romanized nor germanized, but combining some of the strongest qualities of both races and well prepared to act as a kind of intellectual, moral and artistic link between them.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • For over a century, the German or germanized high clergy became the strongest supporters of the emperor's influence in the country.

    Belgium From the Roman Invasion to the Present Day Emile Cammaerts 1915

  • In recent times, the opinion has prevailed that, far from being hostile to the Germans, Ottakar favoured German immigration into Bohemia, and that, with the possession of the Austrian lands, he might perhaps have completely germanized Bohemia; and, had he secured the imperial crown, this powerful prince might have given a new importance to the imperial authority.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Until she seized on part of the spoils of Poland, her Slavonic subjects were for the most part germanized Slavs; and even after acquiring Posen and Warsaw at the close of the eighteenth century, she could still claim to be the chief Germanic State.

    The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 2 of 2) John Holland Rose 1898

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