THE GERMAN STATE MINISTRY FOR CHECH AND MORAV, PRAGUE (1906) 1939 - 1945 (1965), inv. 1270, sig. 110-12/96

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39.) to control the lower classes first in their surroundings and then to lead Europe and the whole world. Emperor Wilheim supported this movement sohon before the war and the pre-war pangermanism nourished his political theory with it, returning to the early purely German theorists of Pangermanism, Lagarde and Treitschke, who complemented with romantic mysticism in Wagner's art and the overstretched voluntarism in Nietzsoh's philosophy. As we know, this movement expressed two political theses even before the war: the gradual national unification of all the Deats and their factions, the great world expansion of this 80 million people afterward in Central and Eastern Europe, then in Fore-Asia and North Africa - and thus in the whole pre-war world, From this pre- war Pangermanism the National Socialist Pangermenism is subordinated to some questions. He proceeds, as Ioh said, above all from his racial theory. History, according to this conception, is an incessant struggle, victory, fall and descent of the different human races. These breeds are natural, given by nature and unspoilt fac- tors, who already contain in their original content and their congenital dispositions and characteristics all possible soups and forms of human culture and their further development latent. The climate, the natural environment, the geographical and other living conditions