The PanGerman Plot Unmasked: Berlin's formidable peace-trap of "the drawn war" — John Shaqi
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
+------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
| | Square | |
| |Kilometres.|Inhabitants.|
+------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
| In the West: | | |
| Holland | 38,141 | 6,114,000 |
| Belgium | 29,451 | 7,500,000 |
| Luxemburg | 2,586 | 260,000 |
| Switzerland* | 41,324 | 3,800,000 |
| The Departments of the North of | | |
| France to the N.E. of a line drawn | | |
| from the S. of Belfort to the | | |
| mouth of the Somme about | 50,271 | 5,768,000 |
| +-----------+------------+
| Total | 161,773 | 23,442,000 |
| +-----------+------------+
| To the East: | | |
| Russian Poland | 127,320 | 12,467,000 |
| Baltic Provinces, Esthonia, | | |
| Livonia, Courland | 94,564 | 2,686,000 |
| The three Russian Governments | | |
| of Kovno, Vilna, Grodno | 121,840 | 5,728,000 |
| +-----------+------------+
| Total | 343,724 | 20,881,000 |
| +-----------+------------+
| To the South-East: | | |
| Austria-Hungary† | 676,616 | 50,000,000 |
+------------------------------------+-----------+------------+
| These three groups form a grand total of 1,182,113 Square |
| Kilometres and 94,323,000 inhabitants. |
+-------------------------------------------------------------+
* Minus eventually the French and Italian Cantons which the
Pangermans declare that they do not care to annex.
† Minus the Italian regions of the Trentino, which Berlin
decided to cede (at the expense of Austria) to Italy as the
price of her neutrality.
This confederation was thus to group under German supremacy
Square
Kilometres. Inhabitants.
Actual German Empire 540,858 68,000,000
New territories of the Confederation 1,182,113 94,000,000
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Total 1,722,971 162,000,000
of whom only 77 millions are Germans and 85 millions non-Germans.
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