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Many Germans, especially intellectuals and the military, felt in some sense cheated of the full benefits of the unification of Germany (1871). They believed that they were morally, culturally and racially superior to the British and the French and that they were entitled, by right, to a vast empire. This kind of thinking hardened from the 1890s onwards.

Much of this thinking originated in the German universities and then filtered through (via the school system and the press) to very large sections of the population.

It should be added that (with variations) this kind of thinking was widespread in other countries, such as Britain, but without the sense of grievance so characteristic in Germany.

Some of the more 'forward-looking' (?) German imperialists saw Germany's imperial future not in Africa or Asia, but mainly in Europe itself.

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Germany was annoyed by Imperialism because Britain and France increased competion with Germany to aquire land in Africa.

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