Caption: War Publications - WWI Compilation 1923 - Article 49
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V. ' T H E PAN GERMAN MOVEMENT. SINCE 1890. The F\in German League .. Founded !S»o. rvormnUrt 1893; membershlp about 50,000: closely a * in t.d uit>, M w UM K UO: Influential with the imperial government• strongly supported ; i m | Hfrungly opposed. l» AiniH i Mtato coterminous with the German ra ddiCion of several Austrian states, part S parts of Russia. lie: peoples to the great German state: K i. the Scandinavian states. <3) To extend the power of Germany throughout the world; to force Kngland to surrender her best colonies. («) To assist Germans in other lands (United States, Brazil) to maintain Deutschtum: German speech, ideals, and mode of living. (The Iways been hostile to the Monroe Doctrine.) 2. T > c Bagdad Railway scheme a. The. nlnn ffirct riavolrtrwwl 1 The plan (first developed by Dr. Rohrbach about 1900): to build a railvay from the Bosporus by way of Bagdad to the Persian Gulf; to connect this with the railway system from Hamburg and Berlin to Constantinople; to build a branch line south through Syria and on toward Mtcca and further. Future possibilities of the plan. (1) To develop Asiatic Turkey, especially the Mesopotamia* plain. (2) To divert a large part of the trade of eastern and southern Asia to MB line (half of the world's population Jives east of the Persian Gtlf). a Canal and tro) of both short routes to the Orient. (4) To connect the Syrian branch with the Cape to Cairo Railway and divert the trade of Bast Africa to German ports. c. England spoiled the larger features of the plan by raising the Union Jack over Koweit, the proposed terminal on the Persian Gulf. (Koweit had asked lor British protection before the Bagdad plan was M M I ' pleted.) The Mid-Europe scheme (first fully developed by Naumann, 1916): this plan looks towar4 the formation of a great military and economic union of Germany, Austro-Hungary, and the Balkan states; the Bagdad Railway scheme fits closely in with the Mid-Kurope plan. Pan-Germanism as a cause of war 4. a. The pan-tfcrmauists realized that their plans could be carried out only through war and welcomed it. b. Their constant agitation for colonial adventures disturbed the peace of the world; they helped to bring on the Morocco crisis. c. They preached constant hostility to England as the great obstacle to the achievement of their plans. 16
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