ABSTRACT
The deterioration of the League’s relations with the government also had more immediate impact, for it brought about a large-scale exodus of members and a financial crisis that pushed the League to the brink of bankruptcy. The conflict with the government grew more intense, aggravating the crisis in the League and encouraging the organization’s radicalization. Publication of the government’s proposal for a naval law late in 1905 coincided with the culmination of disillusionment in the Pan-German League over the Moroccan venture. The finances of the Pan-German League have been a subject of great interest to historians, particularly to those of a Marxist-Leninist persuasion who have charged that the organization was the tool of the monopoly capitalists. The Pan-German League was the smallest of the major patriotic societies in Imperial Germany, and for most of the prewar period the scale of its operations remained comparatively restricted.
