And as for nations which have lost their independence and have bowed to the yoke of the conqueror, their fate is incorporation.

How can they hope or expect to retain their separate existence and their peculiar culture when they have surrendered the power upon which these privileges depend?
"No nation can permit the Jews to have a double nationality"; and the same applies to Poles, Finns, Alsatians, Irishmen, and Belgians.[1] This is the point of view of Bernhardi, Treitschke, and the German Government.

This is the theory which is said to justify the practice of Prussianisation, Russianisation, Magyarisation, and so on.

It raises the whole question of the value and significance to civilisation of the existence of small nations.

Treitschke, of course, and his school are convinced that they possess neither value nor significance.