Note 4 — Chapter VII · ToC

Art. 3.—"Whether these colours black-red-gold, are really the colours of the ancient Reich, which historians dispute, or are those of the Lutzow Free Company, we look rather to the political ideals and aims associated with them during the nineteenth century. It was the idea of political freedom and of national unity that kept the black-red-gold, an honoured symbol in German Austria long after the black-white-red had flown over the German Empire. As the historian Constantine Franz has said, in mediæval times there was an Austro-Germany, in modern times a Prusso-Germany, and now there must be a German Germany."—Dr. Preuss, introductory speech, 24th February, 1919.