WXVE shall discuss transportation in Germany in its three phases: (1) the prewar condition; (2) its development during the war, and its collapse; and (3) a look into the future, with the possibility of reconstruction. When a state of war was declared in Germany on the second of August, 1914, German transportation had reached its zenith. The network of German railroads with its 35,000 kilometers of main lines, 18,000 kilometers of branch lines and 11,000 kilometers of third-class railroads exceeded that of every country in Europe, even including European Russia, and ranked second only to the United States of America. With its 137 kilometers of railroads to each 100 square kilometers of area, Germany was exceeded only by Belgium in smallness of mesh in this network of railroads.