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Seaman, with trembling fingers, unlocked the little despatch box which stood by his side and took from it jealously a sheet of linen-backed parchment.
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For the sake of clarity, the following definitions are indicated for certain terms occuring frequently in this study. ‘Austria’ refers to the Austrian half of the Hapsburg Monarchy from 1867 to 1918, and to the Austrian republic after 1918. ‘Austrian Empire’ refers to the entire Hapsburg state prior to 1867: thereafter the terms ‘Hapsburg Monarchy,’ ‘Dual Monarchy,’ or simply ‘the Monarchy’ are used. ’Germany’ refers specifically to the Second Reich of 1871–1918, or the Weimar Republic thereafter. ’Germans’ or ’German’ is used as a collective expression for all the people of the mid-European area considering themselves culturally German. When the Germans of any specific state or area are mentioned, it will be as ’Reich-Germans,’ ‘AustrianGermans,“Bohemian-Germans’ or ’Baltic-Germans’ (of the Russian Baltic provinces).
His works best known in America were: Pan-Germany; the Disease and Cure (Boston, 1917); The Pangerman Plot Unmasked… (New York, 1917); The United States and Pangermania (New York, 1918). A comparable German example is K. Wirth, Der grossdeutsche und der mitteleuropdische Traum von 1815 bis 1938 (Würzburg, 1938).
radame reproduced in facsimile a number of letters from prominent Americans in his paper, Le Français Réaliste (April, 1929, p. 1.) in order to establish his claim to be a prominent authority in international affairs. Thus bolstered, he attacked American war debt policy in 1929, and singled out Herbert Hoover as a tool of the Pan-Germans and the so-called Jewish world conspiracy.
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See, for instance, W. O. Henderson, ‘Germany and Mitteleuropa,’ German Life and Letters, II (1937–38), 161–73; W. L. Langer, ‘When German Dreams Come True,’ Yale Review, XXVII (1938), 678–98.
June 1941, p. 30. In a similar vein note D. S. Whittlesey, German Strategy of World Conquest (New York, 1942), pp. 3–60
In a geographic sense the term, ’Mitteleuropa,’ is usually translated as ‘Central Europe.’ Between 1918 and 1939 that English label indentified primarily the group of states that emerged from the Hapsburg collapse of 1918. This study will employ the term ‘Middle Europe’ or ‘mid-European area’ to identify the land mass of Europe located between the West European states, Scandinavia, Russia, and the receding Ottoman Empire between 1815 and 1945.
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Meyer, H.C. (1955). Fiction and Fact: An Introduction. In: Mitteleuropa. International Scholars Forum, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2469-8_1
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