Die deutsche Vorgeschichtsforschung und ihr Verhältnis zu Nationalismus und Rassismus

Peripheries and Contested Regions in Nationalist Imaginations: Irish–German Comparisons, 1850–1930

“…53 Yet Treitschke's agenda is about more than merely making arguments for German rule over Alsace-Lorraine; it had as much to do with staking claims for a general German dominance over continental Europe as with any specific territorial claims(s). 54 The case of Alsace-Lorraine represents a kind of median point between Ulster, regarded as both geographically and historically integral to the Irish nation; and the 'Prussian East', regarded as a borderland, the history of which was shaped by 'continuous' struggle between Germans and Slavs, but nonetheless part of the Germans' 'national' history (both culturally and politically). Alsace-Lorraine was regarded as geographically, culturally and historically integral, inhabited solely by 'Germans', but ones who had nonetheless been 'damaged' by centuries of French rule and cultural penetration.…”