As national pride began to blossom in each country, there was an increasing belief in a national destiny in many of the countries that would play a significant role in initiating the First World War. ... This statement, made by the moderate historian and publicist Hans Delbruck in 1899 in his Preussische Fahrbucher, not only represents the general prevailing opinion in Germany, but it also foreshadows Germany's desire to pursue its goals at almost any cost "even war. ...

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" (Kruszewski, 1940, 964) This would also of course be the reason for the German annexation of Austria and Czechoslovakia; it was "the destiny of the Czech people and lands trustfully in the hands of the Fuhrer.... As early as 1933 we could see such underlying plans that would foreshadow the Fuhrer's true plans. ...

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