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France’s worries
The French worried that Germany’s faster population growth meant their own eventual extinction as a great power.
The Germans were not so worried about the French but were terrified of the teeming Slavic hordes’ to the east.
Hungarian nationalists believed they faced a battle without hope in the struggle against folk death at the hands of the Slavs, Germans and Romanians
Mazower 1998
Angst on gender and race
serious/quasi scientific thought about what the world will become such as:-
1) Social Darwinism - weakest economies and polities would be swallowed by the stronger economies
2) Pessimist Max Nordu sees modern artistic expression, poetry and music as a sign of degeneracy
3) Worriees about sexual aberration, woman refusing to bear children, Lesbianism (French Anthropologist Henri Theie 1885) , extreme feminism, homosexuality
Thoughts on Criminal acts and Deviants
Emergence of criminology (criminal anthropology)
The born criminal (delinquent nato) Dr Cesare Lombrso , he believes them marked with physical and psychological features, primitive traits - thievery, alcoholism, prostitution, murderers
The emergence of Eugenics (the science of improving a human population by controlled breeding to increase the occurrence of desirable heritable characteristics) - Sterilisation of deviants introduced in USA
Welfare initiatives
Germany, 1883, Health Insurance Act, 6 years later, pensions
Britain - (1909) Old-Age pensions and health unemployment insurance (1911)
But still socialist unrest existed e.g. strikes in France crushed by police ad military results in anarchist acts bomb in chambers for deputies, president of republic assassinated 1894, murder of Empress Elizabeth of Austria
1898 - Delegates from 21 countries at Rome agree to maintain surveillance of extremists and exchange intelligence, concessions about white slavery and kidnapping of young women for prostitution - it was hoped these sorts of conferences would stop war and unrest and dampen fears of social unrest and revolution
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