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Rh before the War, though we commonly think of the Junker as Prussian only. The peasantry of both countries was in a state of serfdom until a comparatively short time ago. Democratic Ideals and Reality, 1919 Fig 29 p 163.jpg 29.—The surviving islands of Wendish (Slavonic) speech at Kottbus, encircled by the flowing tide of German speech.

The two long limbs of territory thrust out by Prussia in north-easterly and south-easterly directions have a deep historical meaning for those who read history on the map, and it is history on the map which constitutes one of the great realities with which