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Chapter 1 The Kaiser's Hatred of the United States
It is a proverb that things done in secret soon or late are published from the housetops.
Certainly everything that was hidden as to the plots of the Potsdam gang is, little by little, now being revealed.
Nothing illustrates this fact better than that volume published in Leipsic in 1907, called "Reminiscences of Ten Years in the German Embassy in Washington, D. C."
When that aged diplomat published the story of his diplomatic career he doubtless thought that the volume prepared for his children and grandchildren and friends was forever buried in the German language. It never even occurred to the Councillor of the Ambassador, von Holleben, that the book would ever fall into the hands of any American. The very fact that an American author found the volume in a second-hand bookstore of Vienna in 1914 and translated the three chapters on the Kaiser's representatives in the United States and the organization of the German-American League, must have roused the Foreign Department in Berlin to the highest point of anger.
Children and diplomats oftentimes unconsciously betray the most important secrets. No volume ever published could possibly have revealed matters of greater moment to Germany than this volume of reminiscences that sets forth the propaganda carried on in the United States by Ambassador von Holleben and his legal councillor for the furthering of the Pan-German Empire scheme.
No scholar can doubt the right of this old diplomat to speak. The Kaiser personally vouched for him by giving him this important duty. The honours bestowed at the end of his long diplomatic career tell their own story. Every page breathes sincerity and truthfulness. No one who reads this volume can doubt that this author gave the exact facts-facts well known to his German friends-in the recollections of his diplomatic career.
This diplomat tells us plainly that von Holleben and himself were sent to the United States specially charged with the task of reuniting Germans who were naturalized in America with the German Empire.
It was their duty to organize secret German-American societies in every great city like New York and Brooklyn, Chicago and Milwaukee, Cincinnati and St. Louis, and to present to these societies a German flag sent from the hands of the Kaiser himself.
Their work, says the author, was based upon the fact that the Kaiser had passed a law restoring full citizenship in Germany to those Germans who had become naturalized citizens of the United States. When, therefore, these members of the German-American League formally accepted their restored citizenship their first duty was to the Fatherland and the Kaiser and their second duty to the United States and its Government. Indeed, this lawyer and author actually goes so far as to give extracts from von Holleben's speech before the German-American League in Chicago when he presented the society with a German flag and swore the members to the old-time allegiance.
He says that in some way the editor of the Chicago Tribune found out about this meeting and wrote a very severe editorial, after which, he adds, that von Holleben and himself had to be more careful.
Concerning the Milwaukee meeting, he refers to a conversation which revealed his judgment that if ever there was trouble between Germany and the United States the war would partake of the nature of a civil war. The author not only gives an account of the conference held at the Waldorf-Astoria between Ambassador von Holleben, Professors Munsterberg of Harvard and Schoenfield of Columbia and himself, on the one side, and Herman Ridder on the other, but he gives the instructions from Berlin that Herr Ridder could only keep his subsidy from the German Government for the New Yorker Staats Zeitung by placing his fealty to Germany first and subordinating his Americanism, and that otherwise Ambassador von Holleben would found a rival German paper that would have back of it "unlimited resources, to wit: the total resources of the German Empire."
Here, then, is proof positive that the Kaiser began his efforts to establish a pro-German movement against the United States for several years before 1906 and that he methodically kept it up until the war began.
Through it all he claimed to be our sincere friend; but he was then, as he is to-day, an implacable and relentless enemy, with a heart laden with hatred and bitterness.
Chapter 1 The Kaiser's Hatred of the United States
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Chapter 2 The Kaiser's Character Revealed in His Choosing the Sultan for His Friend
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Chapter 3 Pershing's Charges versus the Kaiser
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Chapter 4 Who Taught the Kaiser That a Treaty Is a Scrap of Paper
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Chapter 5 The Original Plot of the Members of the Potsdam Gang
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Chapter 6 The Berlin Schemers and Their Plot
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Chapter 7 German Superiority a Myth That Has Exploded
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Chapter 8 German Intrigues
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Chapter 9 German Burglars Loaded With Loot Are the More Easily Captured
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Chapter 10 Germans Who Hide Behind the Screen
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Chapter 11 German Barbarism Not Barbarism to the German
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Chapter 12 The German Science of Lying
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Chapter 13 The Malignity of the German Spies
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Chapter 14 Politic of Germany
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Chapter 15 Polygamy and the Collapse of the Family in Germany
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Chapter 16 Hot Swords in Sister Julie's Eyes
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Chapter 17 The Hidden Dynamite; the Hun's Destruction of Cathedrals
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Chapter 18 The German Sniper Who Hid Behind the Crucifix
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Chapter 19 The Ruined Studio
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Chapter 20 The Glory of the French Soldier's Heroism
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Chapter 21 Why the Hun Cannot Defeat the Frenchman
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Chapter 22 I Am Only His Wife
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Chapter 23 A Soldier's Funeral in Paris
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Chapter 24 Lover of Louvain
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Chapter 25 A Vision of Judgment in Martyred Gerbéviller
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Chapter 26 The Return of the Refugees
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Chapter 27 An American Knight in France
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Chapter 28 An American Soldier's Grave in France
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Chapter 29 These Flowers, Sir, I Will Lay Them Upon My Son's Grave
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Chapter 30 and Scotland
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Chapter 31 England Shall Not Starve
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Chapter 32 Americans Who Vilify England
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Chapter 33 American Girls in Munition Factories
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Chapter 34 The Wolves' Den on Vimy Ridge
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Chapter 35 Why Did You Leave Us in Hell for Two Years
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Chapter 36 This War Will End Within Forty Years
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Chapter 37 The Redemption of a Slacker
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Chapter 38 Slackers versus Heroes
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Chapter 39 German Stupidity in Avoiding the Draft
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Chapter 40 I'm Working Now for Uncle Sam
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