Since wars are extremely expensive, almost all wars have economic reasons: destroying or conquering a competitor or securing the supply of pivotal raw materials are two of the most common. World War I was no exception. After Germany was unified in 1871, it experienced a rocket-like ascent as a world power, threatening the colonial dominance of the British, French and Russian world empires. When Germany surpassed Britain in coal and steel production around the turn of the century with economic growth rates many times higher than the British, the dice had been cast…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ May 23, 2014
In Part 1 of this article, I provided an account of the Jewish role in the events leading up to World War One, with an emphasis on their influence in the UK and United States. Woodrow Wilson was shown to be the first American president elected with the full backing of the Jewish lobby, and…
By Ralph Raico ∙ May 23, 2014
Wherever blame for the war might lie, for the immense majority of Americans in 1914 it was just another of the European horrors from which our policy of neutrality, set forth by the Founding Fathers of the Republic, had kept us free. Pašić, Sazonov, Conrad, Poincaré, Moltke, Edward Grey, and the rest – these were…
By Richard A. Widmann ∙ October 1, 2013
Charles Callan Tansill, one of the foremost American diplomatic historians of the Twentieth Century, was born in Fredericksburg, Texas, on December 9, 1890, the son of Charles and Mary Tansill.[1] Tansill earned his bachelor’s degree from the Catholic University of America in 1912 and his Ph.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1918. At Johns…
By Thomas Dalton ∙ July 1, 2013
In 2006, an inebriated Mel Gibson allegedly said this: “The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world.” There followed the predicable storm of anti-anti-Semitism, ad hominem attacks, and various other slanders against Gibson’s character. But virtually no one asked the question: Is he right? Or rather this: To what degree could he…
By Ralph Raico ∙ December 1, 2012
The immediate origins of the 1914 war lie in the twisted politics of the Kingdom of Serbia.[1] In June, 1903, Serbian army officers murdered their king and queen in the palace and threw their bodies out a window, at the same time massacring various royal relations, cabinet ministers, and members of the palace guards. It…
By Ralph Raico ∙ April 1, 2013
With the onset of war in Europe, hostilities began in the North Atlantic which eventually provided the context – or rather, pretext – for America’s participation. Immediately, questions of the rights of neutrals and belligerents leapt to the fore. In 1909, an international conference had produced the Declaration of London, a statement of international law…
By Nicholas Kollerstrom ∙ December 1, 2011
On August 1, 1914, as dreadful war was breaking out in Europe, the German ambassador Prince Lichnowsky paid a visit to Britain’s Foreign Secretary Sir Edward Grey. Dr Rudolf Steiner commented as follows upon this meeting – in a 1916 lecture which he gave in Switzerland: “A single sentence and the war in the West…
By William K. Von Uhlenhorst-Ziechmann ∙ July 1, 1986
The Falcon and the Eagle: Montenegro and Austria, 1908-1914 by John D. Treadway; Purdue University Press, 349 pp. $18.00 Aptly titled, The Falcon and The Eagle, while of particular interest to the student of diplomatic historiy, makes absolutely fascinating reading, even for those general scanners who have but the most fleeting impression of the immediate…
By Steffen Werner ∙ November 1, 2003
In August 1895, a series of articles began in the British weekly The Saturday Review, which called for the annihilation of Germany and whose disastrous greed for German plunder still reverberates to the present day. With the Second Reich, a German state came into being which was rapidly creating a modern economy which imperiled the…
By Charles E. Weber ∙ January 1, 1996
Freispruch für Deutschland: Ausländische Historiker und Publizisten widerlegen antideutsche Geschichtslügen (Acquittal for Germany: Foreign Historians and Journalists Refute Anti-German Lies about History), Robert L. Brock (publisher), Munich: FZ-Verlag, 1995. 160 pages. As the subtitle of this book informs us, Freispruch für Deutschland is concerned with writings of non-German historians and journalists who have argued against…
End of content
End of content
