''Germany must, in fulfilment of a duty
to herself, obtain colonial possessions at
the expense of France, obtain both colonial
possessions and sea-power at the expense
of England, and put an end, by campaigns
perhaps defensive, but at any rate vigorous, to the menace of Slav barbarism upon
the East. She was potentially, by her
strength and her culture, the mistress of
the modern world, the chief influence in
it, and the rightful determinant of its
destinies. She must by war pass from a
potential position of this kind to an actual
position of domination."
Such was the German mood, such was
the fatuous illusion which produced this
war. It had at its service, as we shall see
later, numbers and, backed by this superiority of numbers, it counted on victory.
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