A compulsory Germany-did-it article has been published in The Sunday Express. The piece looks at Admiral Fisher's prediction made in 1911 that war would break out in the summer of 1914, and that because Germany was building a huge Navy and required widening of the Kiel Canal, the war was actually about ships.
The real reason for the Great War? Who ruled the world? Existing superpower Britain, or wannabe Germany? The title holder, or contender.
Who did what to whom in the bewildering Balkans, or who was allied with whom, are sideshows, exhibits, also-rans. It was all about ships: “dreadnought” battleships, floating steel leviathans so-called because they feared nothing on the grey wastes.
[source : Great War Centenary: Britannia rules the waves... but for how long?, The Sunday Express, http://www.express.co.uk/news/world-war-1/462613/Great-War-Centenary-Britannia-rules-the-waves-but-for-how-long, 2nd March 2014]
The implication that Germany started the war is made in this cheap analysis:
The widening of the Kiel Canal at the bottom of the Jutland Peninsula was duly finished on June 23, 1914. The First World War started six weeks later. Most analyses of the causes of the Great War miss the wood for the trees.
And this section describes a meeting in December 1912.
The Kaiser, who regarded himself a God-appointed dictator, held a war council in Berlin in December 1912.
The meeting took place The mood was for war with Britain. “The sooner the better,” declared army chief of staff von Moltke. Yet von Tirpitz demurred. Why? Because widening of the Kiel Canal was not finished.
He asked for a year and a half postponement. Germany wanted war with Britain, so Germany got war bang on the schedule set by von Tirpitz. The German violation of Belgian neutrality on August 4, 1914, was always bound to bring Britain out fighting. Brussels was an old friend, and honour alone required Britain to come to her aid.
This meeting has its own Wikipedia page, at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_Imperial_War_Council_of_8_December_1912
And guess what?
NO AGREEMENT FOR WAR IN 1914 WAS REACHED AT THAT MEETING!
Only preparations for a possible war with Russia or France were agreed, with a prediction made of war within the next few years of 1912. As one significant attendee Admiral Mueller wrote of the meeting:
That was the end of the meeting. There were almost no results.
If a decision as monumental as starting a world war with Great Britain, Russia and France had been taken then surely there would have been something written a but more emotional, powerful and foreboding.
This is tricky journalism by the author of this article, John Lewis-Stempel, who twists a Wikipedia page to imply that the decision to start World War One was taken at a meeting in Germany on 8th December 1912, and he appears to be relying on a historian John Röhl who made it his life's work to destroy the credibility and character of Wilhelm.
But the facts remain:
1. Wilhelm wrote in his memoirs that he was told by a distinguished German Freemason that Freemasonry had engineered the war to create a power vacuum in Central Europe;
2. Arch Duke Ferdinand had been condemned to death by Freemasonry...and he knew it;
3. The assassins of Ferdinand were Freemasons, and received encouragement and the material for the assassination from foreign Freemasons;
4. Great Britain had established The Balkan Committee in 1903 to manipulate war in the Balkans, which produced the war that the aforementioned meeting on 8th December 1912 focused on which nearly led to Germany declaring war in 1912.
And if Wilhelm was the mad militaristic bloodthirsty dictator and desperate for war then why did he not go for it in December 1912? Was it because Great Britain indicated that it would join any war to defend France and Russia in 1912? And learning from this decision by Germany to avoid war with Great Britain, is this why King George V told Henry's brother in 1914 that Great Britain would not join in any war, thus encouraging the mobilisations to war, yet as soon as Germany invaded Belgium, Great Britain cited the obscure 1839 Treaty of London which it was not legally bound to enforce unilaterally as the casus belli?
And why is Admiral Fisher's prediction made in 1911 of war in the summer of 1914 not an indication that Great Britain engineered the war?
WHAT
A
LOAD
OF
BOLLOCKS!
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