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By John C. G. Röhl,Terence F. Cole

Kaiser Wilhelm II, Queen Victoria's eldest grandchild, took over the working of the strong German Reich from Bismarck and inside of a few many years had led it into international conflict and cave in. How did the Kaiser come to have quite a bit strength? Why was once there not anyone to assist him steer a much less disastrous direction? This ebook analyses those an important questions with assistance from a wealth of recent archival resources. The booklet starts with a character-sketch of the Kaiser which gives new and alarming insights into his character. It then appears to be like, crucially, on the Kaiser's buddies and favourites, the neo-absolutist tradition of the courtroom and of Berlin court docket society, and on the nature of his courting with the court docket at the one hand and with the executive 'pyramid' in Prussia and the Reich at the different. The booklet makes transparent that those bureaucrats and diplomats had neither the capacity nor the need to oppose the overpowering choice of the Kaiser and his shut pals and advisers in directing the regulations of the main dynamic and unstable kingdom in Europe. the harmful results of this example resulted in the edge of worldwide struggle as early as December 1912. a last bankruptcy unearths for the 1st time the appalling volume and nature of the exiled Kaiser's anti-semitism.

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