English Translation

49+2a cut off and the eyes of the people focused more on the great goals, which were now given to the empire. It is of course that the Bayer remained a Bayer, the Saxon a Saxon, the Prussian a Prussian. But they have seen a common ground beyond these traditional constraints and have learned over the decades to understand that it was only by taking this common ground into account that a whole series of questions of an economic, financial, foreign policy and military nature could be resolved. The greatness of the empire can be attributed to this process= - a process that seems almost self-evident to us today, but at that time the contemporaries did not always want to and could not always understand it. They were so arrested in time and their prejudices that they did not have the strength to look beyond this time and imagine a state constructively that would come once or twice, but which only the seers of that time foreshadowed and prepared. Today, the railway is no longer the modern means of transport of our time, it has now been replaced by the aircraft. Today, in a modern plane, we pass through the space that we once crossed by rail in twelve hours.