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Originally Posted by von Poop  I think that was always part of the problem for such a relatively 'new' state.
In the historical absence of what could really be described as a country called 'Germany' there was only a concept of 'Germanic' heritage rather than 'German'. The door's then that little bit wider to nationalism and agressive expansion when core states join together and questions arise of where such essentially 'race' based borders lie. |
And this is an indication of the whole "Herrenvolk" principle and the attempts to bring, by whatever means possible, all german-speaking peoples into the Reich.