THE LITERATURE OF PANGERMANISM
she would gain in every part of the world, chiefly at the expense of France, would build up a great empire in Central Europe extending even as far as the Persian Gulf. Austria would become part of that empire, whereas Hungary would form the nucleus of a new Habsburg Empire consisting, among other states, of Poland, Serbia (the latter being enlarged by the addition of Bosnia-Herzegovina, Slavonia and the south of Dalmatia) and Bulgaria. This Habsburg Empire would be open to still further extension in the future. Germany would absorb Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Switzerland and the adjoining territories of France, which would be given the name of "Westfranken." The German Empire would also include Poland (Russian Poland, Galicia, Bukovina and parts of Russia), which would be incorporated in the new Austria; to Germany proper would be added the Baltic provinces and the governments of Kovno, Vilna and Grodno; while Turkey, including the west of Persia, but not the south of Arabia, would become a German Protectorate. Finland (excluding Viborg) would become part of Sweden.[1]
A more comprehensive survey of Pangerman literature would have included a fuller treatment of the various Pangerman reviews and papers, of which a few only have been mentioned. It should also be borne in mind that the various Pangerman societies publish leaflets, calendars, almanacks, and all kinds of propagandist literature, and that there is a considerable body of German literature, which, though not explicitly Pangerman, promotes the Pangerman plan: as, for instance, the endless number of books and pamphlets devoted to the cult of Bismarck. Rohrbach, as may be seen from his pamphlet, "Bismarck und Wir" (1915), wrote from the Pangerman point of view, and he affords a striking confirmation of the proposition laid down in a former article, that Pangermanism does not clash with the Bismarckian tradition. This is true, not only as regards its political aims, but also its political methods, and, indeed, the whole spirit of its policy.
- ↑ Today Germany dominates Austria-Hungary (68 millions), Turkey (51), Bulgaria (20), Serbia (412), Montenegro (412), Poland (9), part of the Baltic provinces (3), and a part of Russia (4), amounting in all to 164 million people.
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