Gems (?) of German Thought

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session of her neighbours. Any one who says that she does, slanders her.-

not secure it, then only war remains. To arouse people to a realization of this fact was the mission of the De

paths of conquest, and in view of which all chatter about peace and huma

s of a great and courageous policy, which should lead to victorious wars,

ermanization of all the remains of foreign populations within the Empire, and the procuring for the German peop

ue love for our people and its children commands us to think of their future, however much they may accuse us of quarrelsomeness and lust of war. If the Germanic

narrow "reserves," may appear hard; but it is the only solution of the race-question that is worthy of humanity.... Thus alone can the over-population of the earth be controlled: the efficient peoples must secure themselves elbow-room by means of war, and the inefficient must be hemmed in, and a

f Teutonic (germanisch) stock, under the hegemony of

Dutch Teutonic States, denationalizing them

component parts, in order to take to ourselves the Teutonic el

mer, E.P.

tained that no breaking-up of nations would be necessary, but that a "Germanization" in the mass of t

are the best colonists, the best sailors, and even the best traders! And yet we have not up to now secured our due share in the heritage of t

lack Sea and the Slavs from the south, and shall have conquered large tracts to the east of our frontiers for German colonization. We cannot let loose ex abr

Europe.... In seeking to colonize the countries immediately contiguous to our present patrimony, we are continui

t expand over foreign soil; it must expel the foreig

tiers in Europe.... We must make room for an Empire of Germanic race which shall number 100,000,000 inhabitants

s, to serve in the Army and Navy, and to acquire landed property, will recover the feeling they had in the Middle Ages of being a people

German people in the establishment of t

ing of its Germani

of room for its s

ortion of the earth which shall be sufficiently large, vario

mer, E.P.

ls, we are now striving, may one day compel us to force upon other natio

erritory. That is the only solid and durable gain ... that alone can really promot

an character. Therefore we shall know how to set a limit to our desire for expansion, and shall escape the

he Baltic, to the Persian Gulf, absorbing the Netherlands and Luxembourg, Switzerland, the w

any, and nowhere is so little of it to be found. We hesitate to express even the mo

sire what does not belong to us, but if we take we must also hold fast. In other words, hitherto foreign territory i

. It must be candidly confessed that since the retirement of Bismarck the Will to Power had been lacking.-General

ssary that we should attach one of them to us or that we should swee

wed its most material value to fall into alien hands, and it must be the unceasing endeavour

e must spread thence towards the south until nothing remains of all the lamenta

ndaries, the healthy egoism of our race commands us to place our frontier-pos

t home and abroad, must be that, in everything that happens, the Germans [literally, the most German] should com

a process of expropriation should be inaugurated, by which the Poles and the Alsatians and Lorrainers would be gradual

n beyond

successful war must be the acquisition of colonies by

Empire must acquire more colonies.-Dr. Pohl, of Berlin, at meeting o

the spirit ... and the creative power of the body, that is to say, fecundity.... Whither our spiritual and our b

rth between the other Great Powers, Germany had gone almost empty away. But Germany needed new regions for the planting-out of its ever-growin

ural right. There is here no question of prestige-politics, of adventurer-politics. Further, we are not an institute for lengthening the life of dying States.... Those half-States which

vernment alone can, by the uncompromising (rücksichtslos) employment of its methods of power, conclude treaties .

in the world, are we incapable of doing what our ancestors did? Germany

German Empire, resolutely defending her vital rights, to revive the ancient Prussian policy of conquest. All Morocco in the hands of Germany; German cannon o

Brazil, in Siberia, in Anatolia or in South Africa.... To-day, as 2,000 years ago, when the Cimbri and the Teutons beat

power, many things are possible: we can create a German nation which shall number 100,000,000

of the Sea Powers, and, God willing, so she wil

ivis Romanus, formerly ruled the world, so must every continental German of to-day, and of

(World-D

July,

It is unjust, and therefore un-Germ

Great-German League, will with this war attain

ing war; whereas Germany sincerely desires peace, and the influence which

ding to German measure, and as far as our swords flash and German blood flows, the circle of the earth s

e foot did we want of the countries adjoining our frontie

and! We require more soil for settlement.... And we require unsettled land for s

Through our supremacy (Vorherrschaft), which we hope will be the outward result of this war, God will establish His dominion

; and if Germany does not rule the world (I do not mean through her power alone, but through her all-sided superiori

he battlefields, received honour or recognition at the hands of the German monarch

German people would in 1950 number 118 millions, and in the year 2000, 250 millions. Then we cou

rectly and politically, in part indirectly, through language, methods and Kultur, if only it can in time strike out a "new course," and defin

he lives, will put away from him all pettiness of spirit ... we shall be an un

f conviction, but self-sacrificing, untiring work in the service of the community, in order gradually

as Augustus effected, Germany must now undertake-but o

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orced disarmament upon our enemies. Th

issors, fork

ldren must

ver, our enemies have acted so dishonourably that it is only just that rights of citizenship should be denied

tantial expansions of the German Empire. In this our motive will not be the greed and covetousness of world-ruling England, nor the national vanity of gloire-se

escribes as the keystone of the arch of the British Empire]. But to that end we require an alliance with the Turks." ... Therefore Germany sent officers to instruct the Turkish Army, therefore the Emperor went

ter body of the people may have room to develop, then in that case we shall take as much land as may appear to be necessary. We will also plant our foot where it appears important on strategic grounds that we should do so, in order to maintain our impregnable strength. Thus, if ou

unworthy chains, will soar high over the oceans ... where his wings can grow and he can stretch them according to his needs. And we hope that th

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one, but upon the "Germanoid" races at large. The "inefficient" peoples whom he has specially in view

ade includes the substitution of German for the national language. For the diabolical means by

original landowners ar

he Professor means by "colonizati