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shall have driven the Russians from the 

 Black Sea and the Slavs from the south 

 and shall have conquered large tracts to 

 the east of our frontiers for German 

 colonization." — Paul dE Lagarde, in 

 Deutsche Schriften. 



"Denmark, as commanding the ap- 

 proaches to the Baltic, is of great mili- 

 tary importance to us." — General von 

 Bernhardt in Germany and the Next 

 War. 



"Our Central Europe enlarges and se- 

 cures the northern countries by sea- 

 power and secures and enlarges the 

 southern countries by land power; and 

 unites both parts, Orient and Occident, 

 in one vital, manifold, single organism, 

 thanks to imperative geographical law." — 

 Ernst Jackh, in Deutsche Politik (June 

 1 6, 1916). 



". . . the supreme importance to us 

 of keeping open, at all costs, the passage 

 through the Sound and the Great Belt. 

 The command of these straits will not 

 only secure the Baltic basin for us, but 

 also keep open the sally ports for our 

 offensive operations against the English 

 blockading fleet." — General von Bern- 

 hardt in Germany and the Next War. 



"Pan - Germanism absorbs also the 

 Scandinavians." — E rnst Hasse, in 

 Zwanzig Jahre Alldeutscher Arbert. 



"We require those new Dutch terri- 

 tories, already fertilized by German 

 blood, for the indispensable expansion of 

 our economic dominion. On the Rhine, 

 which has become German to the mouth, 

 we need a free traffic, which the silent 

 resistance of Holland now hampers." — 

 Fritz Beey, quoted by Andler, Pan- 

 Germanism. 



"ate foreign influence in middte 

 europe must be eliminated" 



"The future territory of German ex- 

 pansion, situated between the territories 

 of the Eastern and Western Powers, 

 must absorb all the intermediate regions ; 

 it must stretch from the North Sea to the 

 Baltic; from the Netherlands, taking in 

 Luxembourg and Switzerland, down to 

 the islands of the Danube and the Balkan 

 Peninsula, and would include Asia Minor 



as far as the Persian Gulf. All foreign 

 influence must be eliminated." — Ernst 

 Hasse, in Welt politik. 



"We will annex Denmark, Holland. 

 Belgium, Switzerland, Livonia, Trieste, 

 Venice, and the north of France from 

 the Sombre to the Loire. This program 

 which we propose is not the work of a 

 madman, nor is this empire which we 

 wish to found a Utopia. We have al- 

 ready in our hands the means of realizing 

 it." — General Bronsart vox Schellen- 

 dorE, former Minister of War. 



"Decrepit States like the Argentine 

 and Brazilian republics, and more or less 

 all those beggarly States of South Amer- 

 ica, would be induced either by force or 

 otherwise to listen to reason." — Fried- 

 rich Lange, in Reines Deutschtum. 



"Should Belgium take part in the war, 

 it must be struck off the map." — Ru- 

 dolph Theuden, in Was muss uns der 

 Krieg bring en. 



"Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy, 

 bound together by economic interests in 

 Central Europe, form a great domain 

 which would be very happily rounded off 

 by the adhesion of Switzerland, Belgium, 

 and Holland in the West and of Poland 

 and Lithuania in the East." — Paul 

 Dehn, in Deutschland unter der Orient. 



"It is sad to reflect that neither Para- 

 guay nor Argentina belongs, even in part, 

 to Germany today." — Professor Jo- 

 hannes Unoed, of Munich. 



"A MAGNIFICENT ElEED EOR GERMANY" 



"The East is the only territory in the 

 world which has not passed under the 

 control of one of the ambitious nations 

 of the globe. Yet it offers the most mag- 

 nificent field for colonization ; and if Ger- 

 many does not allow this opportunity to 

 escape her, if she seizes this domain be- 

 fore the Cossacks lay hands upon it, she 

 will have secured the best share in the 

 partition of the earth. The German Em- 

 peror would have the destinies of Nearer 

 Asia in his power if some hundreds of 

 thousands of armed colonists were culti- 

 vating these splendid plains ; he might 

 and would be the guardian of peace for 

 all Asia." — A. SprEnger, in Babylonicn 



