If we now add the figures belonging to the three territorial groups aimed at by the 1911 plan in the South and South-East we shall see that Germany has carried out her programme on
| Square Kilometres. | |
|---|---|
| Austria-Hungary | 676,616 |
| Balkans | 215,585 |
| Turkey | 1,792,900 |
| Total | 2,685,101 |
As the total plan aimed at the German direct or indirect seizure of 2,968,791 square kilometres, we see that, considered in that light, the goal of the 1911 plan has been reached in the South and South-East in the proportion of 89%, being roughly nine-tenths.
Now I have shown (pp. 52 and 56) that Germany occupied or controlled early in 1916:
In the West over 90,478 square kilometres.
In the East over 260,000 square kilometres.
We have just seen that in the South and South-East the German plan has been achieved over 2,685,101 square kilometres.
Of course all the territories included in that last figure are far from having the same value, especially those of part of Turkey, but in that figure Austria-Hungary alone claims 676,616 square kilometres, that is, she alone represents a seizure, disguised it may be, yet not less real, which is infinitely more considerable than the German occupations in the West and East.
From these calculations it clearly follows that the part of the Pangerman plan which concerns Austria-Hungary, the Balkans and Turkey, that is, Central Europe and the East, forms by far the main part of the Pangerman scheme. That is an observation of extreme importance for the Allies and for Neutrals, because of the world-wide consequences which flow from the scheme summed up in the formula, “From Hamburg to the Persian Gulf.” These consequences will be stated in Chapter V.