The Guilt of William Hohenzollern. Karl Johann Kautsky

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       Karl Johann Kautsky

      The Guilt of William Hohenzollern

      Published by Good Press, 2021

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      EAN 4064066463410

Table of Contents

       PREFACE

       The Guilt of William Hohenzollern

       CHAPTER I WHO ARE THE GUILTY?

       CHAPTER II THE ISOLATION OF GERMANY

       CHAPTER III GERMAN PROVOCATIONS

       CHAPTER IV AUSTRIA

       CHAPTER V THE BALKAN CRISES

       CHAPTER VI THE SITUATION BEFORE THE WAR

       CHAPTER VII MATERIALS RELATING TO THE ORIGIN OF THE WAR

       CHAPTER VIII SERAJEVO

       CHAPTER IX WILLIAM'S MONARCHICAL CONSCIENCE

       CHAPTER X THE CONSPIRACY OF POTSDAM

       CHAPTER XI THE CONSPIRATORS AT WORK

       WILLIAM'S INSISTENCE

       AUSTRIA'S HESITATION

       A FALSE CALCULATION

       THE HOODWINKING OF EUROPE

       CHAPTER XII THE ULTIMATUM TO SERBIA

       THE LOCALIZATION OF THE WAR

       THE SABOTAGE OF THE PEACE EFFORTS

       THE BEGINNING OF UNCERTAINTY IN GERMANY

       CHAPTER XIII ITALY

       CHAPTER XIV ENGLAND

       Up to July 29th

       July 29th.

       CHAPTER XV LAST EFFORTS TO PRESERVE PEACE

       CHAPTER XVI THE MOBILIZATIONS

       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

       THE NEUTRALIZATION OF FRANCE

       THE MYSTERIOUS AIRMEN

       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

       APPENDIX

PREFACE

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      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