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William--II,--German Emperor,--1859-1941, Germany--Kings and rulers--Biography, Germany--History--William II, 1888-1918.
publication date
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1989
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DD229.C4 1989eb
ddc
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943.08/4/0924
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William--II,--German Emperor,--1859-1941, Germany--Kings and rulers--Biography, Germany--History--William II, 1888-1918.
Wilhelm II
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Wilhelm and Hermine at Doorn
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Wilhelm II
Volume 2 Emperor And Exile, 1900-1941
Lamar Cecil
The University of North Carolina Press Chapel Hill and London
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1996 The University of North Carolina Press All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America
The paper in this book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources.
This book was published with the assistance of the H. Eugene and Lillian Youngs Lehman Fund of the University of North Carolina Press. A complete list of books published with the assistance of the Lehman Fund appears at the end of the book.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Cecil, Lamar. Wilhelm II, emperor and exile, 1900-1941
Bibliography: v. 2, p. Includes index. 1. William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941. 2. GermanyKings and rulers Biography. 3. Germany HistoryWilliam II, 1888-1918. I. Title. DD229.C4 1996 943.08'4'0924 [B] 88-27798 ISBN 0-8078-2283-3 (alk. paper)
00 99 98 97 965 4 3 2 1
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For Grayson and for Geri
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Contents
Preface
ix
One | The Man at Mid-Passage
1
Two | A Medici on the Spree
25
Three | Reason and Religion
50
Four | L'Allemagne, c'est l'Ennemi
74
Five | The Eulenburg Roundtable
98
Six | The Daily Telegraph Dynamite Bomb
123
Seven | Bethmann and the British
146
Eight | Old Allies and Future Opponents
169
Nine | So Many Enemies: Germany at War
193
Ten | War without Victory
213
Eleven | Only a Shadow: Wilhelm and His Generals
232
Twelve | Michaelis and Hertling: The Scared Rabbit and the Worn-out Professor
252
Thirteen | November 1918: The Great Liquidation
274
Fourteen | In Exile: I Bide My Time
296
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Fifteen | Hohenzollerns and Nazis: The Path to the Palace
317
Sixteen | The Kingdom of Damp
337
Notes
357
Bibliography
455
Index
489
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Preface
This volume brings to a conclusion my biography of the last German Kaiser and covers the final half of his long life. It is the dispiriting narrative of a man and a nation brought to needless ruin, a barren portrait of a career that was without virtue or accomplishment. Wilhelm II was a man of strong likes and prejudices, tyrannically insistent on having his own way. I have tried to accommodate the Kaiser by stressing the affairs that most concerned him, particularly the obsession of his lifeGreat Britain and its relationship with Germany. Other matters that were vital to the history of his empire but that did not strongly interest him are therefore deliberately accorded little emphasis. This is the biography of a man whose vision was woefully constricted and is not the history of the broadly productive nation over which he so maladroitly ruled.
In the course of pursuing for almost three decades the life of the last Kaiser, I have accumulated more indebtedness than I am capable of recalling, and I regret being unable to remember each of the many persons and institutions who have helped further the completion of this work. Thomas Kohut, Peter Paret, Norman Rich, and Gerhard Weinberg all came to my assistance in various ways. Ron Maner and Lewis Bateman, once again, proved to be superlative editors, and Teddy Diggs reviewed the manuscript with a hawk-like eye. In Germany, the efficient staff of the Bundesarchiv in Koblenz and of the Bundesarchiv-Militrarchiv in Freiburg greatly facilitated my research, and I encountered an equally professional reception from Mr. D. T. Coen and his colleagues at the Rijksarchief in Utrecht. I am most indebted to Her Majesty the Queen of England for permission to examine and to quote from the priceless materials deposited in the Royal Archives at Windsor Castle and to the Right Honorable the Marquess of Salisbury for access to ancestral records at Hatfield House. I am also obliged to the late Prince Friedrich-Ferdinand of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glcksburg for his hospitality at Glcksburg while I examined family documents and to Freiherr Nicolai von Freytag-Loringhoven of Munich for permission to consult the papers of Admiral Paul von Hintze. On this side of the Atlantic, Jennifer Ashworth, word-processor
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