. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. laration of war was made publicat the same time as a British declaration of waragainst Germanj^ What had caused an appeal to brute force amongnations no one of whom had been at war with anyof the others for 43 years? To the German people it was represented aspurely a defense of the fatherland, attacked by ene-mies all around it. Russia was pictured as seekingto establish a great Slavic empire by conqueringportions of Germany and Austria, France as inleague with Russia in this design and also desiringrevenge and the recovery of the
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. laration of war was made publicat the same time as a British declaration of waragainst Germanj^ What had caused an appeal to brute force amongnations no one of whom had been at war with anyof the others for 43 years? To the German people it was represented aspurely a defense of the fatherland, attacked by ene-mies all around it. Russia was pictured as seekingto establish a great Slavic empire by conqueringportions of Germany and Austria, France as inleague with Russia in this design and also desiringrevenge and the recovery of the lost provinces ofAlsace and Lorraine, England as jealous of thegrowing commercial and maritime power of Ger-many and determined to destroy it in blood and Kaiser Claims Self-Defense. Emperor William II, clad in a new field grayuniform, appeared before the people of Berlin anddeclared: The sword is forced into my was obliged to take this position by the Ger-man constitution, which gave him power to beginwar on his own sole authority only in defense of.
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