The PanGerman Plot Unmasked: Berlin's formidable peace-trap of "the drawn war"Chéradame, André
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The PanGerman Plot Unmasked: Berlin's formidable peace-trap of "the drawn war"
Chéradame, André
Europe -- Politics and government -- 1871-1918; Pangermanism; World War, 1914-1918
Having thus settled on their plan of 1895, they proceeded to draw up
an actual register of all the Germans existing on the face of the
terrestrial globe, in order to pick out from them such as were likely to
prove the most serviceable tools in executing the Pangerman scheme. The
general results of this register of Germans all over the world are to be
found, in a concentrated form, in the _Pangerman Atlas_ of Paul Langhans,
published by Justus Perthes at Gotha in 1900.
So far as relates to South America, this document proves that there were
In Peru in 1890 2,000 Germans
In Paraguay in 1890 3,000 ”
In Colombia in 1890 3,000 ”
In Uruguay in 1897 5,000 ”
In Venezuela in 1894 5,000 ”
In Chili in 1895 15,000 ”
In Argentina in 1895 60,000 ”
In Brazil in 1890 400,000 ”
These Germans have been strongly inoculated, especially since 1900, by
the Pangerman Societies. They have been organized with particular care
in the countries which, like Argentina, and, above all, Brazil, were
intended to be the principal German protectorates in South America.
The German law, called Delbrück’s law, of July 22nd, 1913, dealing with
the nationality of the Empire and the nationality of the State, has
greatly favoured the Pangerman organization in America. Hence it is
needful to be acquainted with at least the substance of the Delbrück
law, since it formed the last stage, and a very significant one, in the
Pangerman organization all over the world before the outbreak of war.
The second part of article 25 of that law runs as follows:—“If any person
before acquiring nationality in a foreign State, shall have received the
written permission of a competent authority of his native State to retain
his nationality of that State, he shall not lose his nationality of the
said native State. The German consul shall be consulted before granting
the said permission.”
These words afford us a measure of the depth of German astuteness.
According to this provision, a German may become a naturalized subject
of a foreign State, but if he obtains a written permission from the
competent authorities of his native German State, _he continues, in
spite of this naturalization, to enjoy, for himself and his descendants,
all the rights of a German citizen and all the protection of the German
Empire_.
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