WORLD WAR ONE


ANTI-GERMAN HYSTERIA




The seeds of World War One were not nurtured amid lofty principles of liberty, religious freedom or from a need to topple cruel despots. It was a conflict conceived in smoke-filled board rooms, political offices, stock exchanges and banks on both sides of the Atlantic and carried to term by various parties who stood to gain politically or financially.

Birthed into the waiting arms of jealousy, politics and greed, it was a banal, vile creation, an artificially inseminated monster that maimed and murdered a generation of young men and laid a direct pathway to another war. To achieve this goal, motivations and villains had to be artificially crafted. What ensued was the largest ethnic assault in human history.



INTRODUCTION


SECTION ONE: BACKGROUND


THE GERMAN EMPIRE
The Birth of the German Empire


THE HABSBURG EMPIRE
The Holy Roman Empire     The Habsburg Empire


THE PRE-HYSTERIA GERMAN IMAGE
Immigration to the USA     Germans in the American Revolution     Germans in the Civil War


SECTION TWO: CONTENTS


THE NEW KID IN TOWN
The Successful Young German Empire     Invasion Scares     Morocco Crisis


MOTIVES BY LAND
The Baghdad-Berlin Railway     German Nationalism     Oil     Sykes-Picot


MOTIVES BY SEA
German Naval History     The Kiel Kanal     The German Greyhounds


CREATING WAR
Franz Ferdinand’s Assassination     Mt. Tom     Edith Cavell     Henry Ford     The Bankers’ Role


THE EXCUSES
Lusitania     The Kaiser’s Pirates     A Propaganda Bonanza     Zimmermann Note


BIRTH OF THE HUN
George Creel     Wellington House     Propagandists     The C.P.I.


SUSPENDING THE CONSTITUTION
Spies     Peacemakers     Pacifists     Businessmen     Alien and Sedition Act     Vigilantes     A.P.L.


OUR DESTROYED HERITAGE: THE VIOLENCE
Prager Hanging     Violence & Civil Liberties Violations     Assaults on Religion


OUR DESTROYED HERITAGE: CREATING THE SELF-HATING GERMAN
Assaults on the German Language     Book Burnings


OUR DESTROYED HERITAGE CONTINUED: GOODBYE SAUERKRAUT
Assaults on German Music and Teaching


ALL THE BRAVE YOUNG MEN
The Boys who Fought and Died     Dogs     Gas     Veterans


THE END GAME: THE END OF THE EMPIRES
Versailles     The Booty     The Dead Greyhounds     Plebiscites     The Spinmasters


THE END GAME: THE ROARING TWENTIES
Prohibition     A Continuation of Hate and Propaganda


MISCELLANY: DEDICATION, GERMAN ANCESTRY AND BARBAROSSA


Continuation – World War Two: The Physical and Cultural Destruction of Germany