Why Germanophobia may be in the neocon DNA. Here's why

Hand-wringing over the emergence of nationalist tones in German politics is based on shoddy history, says Julian Zelizer .

Zelizer: Neoconservatives are not likely to let go of this obsession; and I therefore go on expatiating on it. By now Germanophobia may be in the neocon DNA..

Neoconservative charge that the Germans sabotaged American arms producers during the First World War overlooks the fact that all American arms were going to Britain to be used against German soldiers.

The Turkish nationalist movement identified with Mustafa Kemal Ataturk did reflect German ideas about military organization, but its model for a secular republic came from revolutionary France .