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N/o connection ion with a attached HOW TO CKECK GERMANY'S ECONOMIC NATIONALISM paper. HST Points Submitted for Discussion William F. Russell Dear Teachers l. The Disproportionate Growth of the German Industry as coller lotion with w stest Main Reason for German Economic Nationalism ARCHIVES AND SERVICEN German economic nationalism has been connected since incipience, in the 1870's, with the fate of the Reich's steel industry which rapidly outgrew the limits set for it by the market situation in Germany and abroad. This disproportionate development of the German steel industry in turn was stimulated by both the Reich's protective tariffs, which facilitated the forming of closely knit cartels, and by the parallel rise of a steel industry in the disputed border district of Lorraine, a phenomenon which at first was of purely technical character but which in the 20th century assumed political shape. (a) When the Reich was founded, in 1871, it gained control over Alsace-Lorraine which possesses the richest iron ore deposits in Continenta] Europe, known as the Minette district. However, since the development of technology in the years immediately following German annexation of these districts was not yet far enough advanced to allow exploitation of the type of iron ore, rich in phosphorous, that is found there, the Reich in the 1870's left them unused and established the foundations of its modern steel industry on the Right bank of the Rhine and in the Ruhr valley, known for its coal deposits and coal mines, and an old center of iron production. Things became different a few years later when the invention of the British engineer Thomas, to de-phosphorize iron ore, gave Lorraine an entirely new importance. This forced the German Ruhr industry to take a hand in the Lorraine development, not rithstanding the fact that it already suffered from over-produc- tion which drove it to imperialism and expansion. Additional technical inventions and improvements such as the utilization at \ +10-729