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Karl Johann Kautsky
The Guilt of William Hohenzollern
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066463410
Table of Contents
The Guilt of William Hohenzollern
CHAPTER II THE ISOLATION OF GERMANY
CHAPTER III GERMAN PROVOCATIONS
CHAPTER VI THE SITUATION BEFORE THE WAR
CHAPTER VII MATERIALS RELATING TO THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR
CHAPTER IX WILLIAM'S MONARCHICAL CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER X THE CONSPIRACY OF POTSDAM
CHAPTER XI THE CONSPIRATORS AT WORK
CHAPTER XII THE ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA
THE SABOTAGE OF THE PEACE EFFORTS
THE BEGINNING OF UNCERTAINTY IN GERMANY
CHAPTER XV LAST EFFORTS TO PRESERVE PEACE
CHAPTER XVII THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON RUSSIA
THE PREPARATION FOR THE DECLARATION OF WAR
THE REASON FOR THE DECLARATION OF WAR
THE OPENING OF THE WAR BY RUSSIA
CHAPTER XVIII THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON FRANCE
CHAPTER XIX THE DECLARATION OF WAR ON BELGIUM
THE BREACH OF FAITH A POLITICAL BLUNDER
THE JUSTIFICATION OF THE BREACH OF FAITH
CHAPTER XX THE WORLD REVOLUTION
CHAPTER XXI THE WORLD-WAR AND THE GERMAN PEOPLE
PREFACE
After the Revolution of November 9th, 1918, I was requested by the People's Commissioners to enter the Foreign Office as a collateral Secretary of State. One of the first tasks which I set myself was to ascertain whether incriminating material had been removed from the archives, as many at that time feared would be the case. I saw nothing to confirm this suspicion. On the contrary, the first materials which I obtained to test it showed that important materials were at hand. I proposed to the Commissioners that, as a beginning, the documents relating to the outbreak of the war should be published. We owed that to the German people, who had a right to learn the truth about those who had hitherto guided the course of the State. It was, I urged, also necessary because nothing else could so clearly bring home to the incredulous foreigner our complete breach with the old régime.
The Commissioners agreed with me, and entrusted me with the collection and editing of the documents. My past record was, I hope, a warrant that no inconvenient material would be suppressed. The only reservation made was that I should not, like Eisner, issue the separate documents according as they came to light, but should wait until they all lay ready to hand. Politically, this was not quite the most desirable plan, for it necessarily meant the postponing of the publication and of its favourable influence on foreign countries. But it cut the ground from under the champions of the old régime, who could not say that we were garbling the material, and producing documents torn from their context, to which no evidential