In fact, the only thing that separated the two main branches of 20th-century totalitarianism was that the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was born of an international movement while the National Socialist German Workers Party was explicitly nationalist.

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More generally, many Germans are wary of Mr Blair's populist and visionary rhetoric which, coming from any German leader, would appear unacceptably nationalist.

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Of course, the Grimm tales were nationalist: the brothers hoped to make their young readers feel and be more German.

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