The Example of Germany
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler, Germany was the major partner in the Second World War which lasted from 1939 to 1945. In this war, about more than 50 million people were killed, and other losses were much greater. When this long-drawn-out war came to an end, Germany had lost one third of its country (East Germany) besides suffering other great losses.
After the end of the war, Germany adopted the method of re-planning. During the first stage of planning, Hitler had been the leader of Germany. During the second stage of planning, the Germans chose to give credence to the philosophy of Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), their famous leader and statesman. Bismarck had said: “Politics is the art of the possible” (St. Petersburgische Zeitung, August 11, 1867 <https://www.shmoop.com/quotes/politics-art-of-impossible.html>).
After the Second World War, the intellectuals of Germany discovered that their first round of planning had been based on the impossible. Now they had to engage in new planning on the basis of the possible.
In the post-war period, Germany worked on this principle. It diverted its attention from war to peaceful progress, particularly in the fields of science and technology. As a result, Germany achieved great success in the later period. Particularly, in the matter of the printing press, it has established a new record all over the world.
This re-planning of Germany succeeded in about a quarter of a century. Germany became the number one industrial country of Europe. Now its economy is the most securely established in the whole of Europe. This progress made by Germany was achieved, in a word, by accepting the principle of re-planning.
In the Second World War, Germany had lost a vast tract of its country, but in the post-war period, Germany achieved whatever it had lost once again as a result of peaceful re-planning. This miracle happened in 1990.
Prior to the Second World War, the target of Germany, under the leadership of Hitler, was to make Germany the political master of the whole of Europe. In this, Germany met with total failure. After the Second World War, Germany set the practicable target of peacefully developing the remaining part of Germany. The first target of Germany had met with complete failure, while its second target of re-planning met with total success.
This experience of Germany shows that in modern times the importance of territory is relative. Even if a man has a small area, by wise planning he can achieve great success. This planning of a high order has two special elements: best communication and best organization.
Modern Germany did not only make itself highly developed, but it also set a model before the world: the model that shows how great success can be achieved after suffering a great loss. But the case of the Muslim countries is a different story. According to their own way of thinking, they have engaged themselves in a long-drawn-out battle for the recovery of their lost land, but they have failed to achieve any positive success. They must take a lesson from this example of Germany and engage in realistic planning on the basis of whatever they already have in their possession and, by availing of modern possibilities, they can achieve great success once again.
