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Excerpt from Prussia's Territory Where Did She Get It?: An Essay
Obviously it is a far reach from the war philosophy of Treitschke to that of Nicolai.
It is said that the first edition of Dr. Nicolai's book, which is in the German language, is already sold out and that a second is being printed.
Short wars DO pay. This undoubtedly was the conviction of a great part of the Prussian people at the time of the commencement of the present war, which they expected would be a short war; and, as we shall see, there was reason for that feeling.
The total area of Prussia in July, 1914, (including Alsace and Lorraine, square miles, which for reasons to appear, I treat as Prussian territory) was square miles, about more than the combined area of Ohio, Indiana and Illi nois. It constituted in 1914, as it had since 1871, about two thirds of the German Empire.
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