| Inhabitants. | |
|---|---|
| Poles | 5,000,000 |
| Inhabitants of Alsace and Lorraine | 1,500,000 |
| Danes | 200,000 |
| Total | 6,700,000 |
The Germany of to-day, which numbered 68 millions of inhabitants in 1914, including the non-Germans, would be brought down to about 61,300,000, in round figures, 61,000,000 of genuine Germans.
But the logical application of the principle of nationalities would give to that Germany the liberty of absorbing those Germans of the Hapsburg monarchy who on historical, strategical, and geographical grounds can be legitimately added to Germany after its reduction from 68 to 61 millions of inhabitants. What would be the result?
Let us look back to p. 32 and examine the map which sums up the ethnographical situation of Austria-Hungary. On this map the Slav and Latin nationalities subject to the Hapsburgs, named in the margin, are indicated by different shadings. The region inhabited by Germans and that inhabited by the Magyars have been left blank. The two last ethnographic groups are separated by a dotted line. This map only gives a very imperfect idea of the ethnographic facts, because it is drawn from ethnographic documents which are German and Magyar, and which are purposely falsified. In reality the Slav regions are a good deal more extensive than is indicated by the blank zones (Germans and Magyars). This is particularly true in the blank zone to the north and north-west of the purely Czech region.
Vienna, which, however, is in the centre of a perfectly blank zone, is by no means, as is generally believed, a purely German city. Her population is Slav to the amount of about one-third (Poles and especially Czechs). This fact, which is certain, is yet not recognized by any official Austrian statistics, because these are drawn up by German functionaries who have orders to falsify them. Their principal mode of garbling the figures is as follows:
In the whole of Austria every Slav or Latin, who merely knows a few words of German, is styled, much against his own will, a German. Now, all the Slavs who live in Vienna know a few words of German. This allows the German statisticians of the Austrian Government to conclude that there are no Slavs in Vienna, and to set down the number of the Slavs in all the rest of Austria at a figure considerably below the truth.
In Hungary the statistics are garbled with the same effrontery by the functionaries of the Budapest government in favour of the Magyar element.
The following, however, are the results given for the whole of the Hapsburg monarchy by the official Germano-Magyar statistics in the census of 1910:
| Round figures in tens of thousands. | |
|---|---|
| Austria. | |
| Germans | 9,950,000 |
| Czechs | 6,440,000 |
| Poles | 4,970,000 |
| Ruthenians | 3,520,000 |
| Slovenes | 1,260,000 |
| Serbo-Croatians | 790,000 |
| Italians | 770,000 |
| Roumanians | 280,000 |
| Total | 27,980,000 |
| Hungary. | |
| Magyars | 10,050,000 |
| Roumanians | 2,950,000 |
| Serbo-Croatians | 2,940,000 |
| Germans | 2,040,000 |
| Slovaks | 1,970,000 |
| Ruthenians | 480,000 |
| Total | 20,430,000 |
| Bosnia and Herzegovina. | |
| Serbo-Croatians (orthodox, or Moslems of Serbian origin) | 2,000,000 |