2º. The absolute subordination to Germany of all the Balkan States, whose superficies is 499,275 square kilometres, holding 22 million inhabitants. We have seen above (_p. 61_), that the German seizure actually extends over 215,585 square kilometres. The German programme, therefore, as regards the Balkans, has been achieved in the proportion of 43%. 3º. The more or less veiled seizure by Germany of the Ottoman Empire, being 1,792,900 square kilometres, holding 20 million inhabitants. Now, early in 1916 the exclusive German influence was felt over the whole of Turkey. As regards her the German plan had therefore been achieved in the proportion of 100%. Let us now group the figures which will enable us to show in what proportion the whole Pangerman plan of 1911 has been actually achieved by Germany: +-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+ | | Provisions | Actual | | | of the 1911 |achievements.| | |plan. Square | Square | | | Kilometres. | Kilometres.| +-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+ |1. Territories to be absorbed in the | | | | great Germanic Confederation | 1,182,113 | 1,027,094 | |2. Balkans | 499,275 | 215,585 | |3. Turkey | 1,792,900 | 1,792,900 | | +-------------+-------------+ | Total | 3,474,288 | 3,035,579 | +-------------------------------------+-------------+-------------+ These figures prove to demonstration that early in 1916 Germany had achieved the Pangerman plan of 1911 in the enormous proportion of 87%, or about nine-tenths. This figure is graphically confirmed by the annexed map; we can see at a glance the geographical as well as superficial relations which exist between the boundaries of the plan of 1911 and the fronts occupied early in 1916 by armies exclusively subordinate to Berlin. [Illustration: THE PLAN OF 1911 AND THE EXTENT OF ITS EXECUTION AT THE BEGINNING OF 1916.] These geographical and mathematical considerations, the importance of which cannot escape us, explain why and under what conditions Germany wished to make peace. She wished it simply because, as the _Frankfurter Zeitung_ owned, without mincing matters, in December, 1915, the goal of the war had been reached.