BETHMANN-HOLLWEG AND TRUTH
Reading edition
“Truth is on the path and nothing will stay her”
A German has written this book. No Frenchman, no Russian, no Englishman.
A German who is unbribed and unbribable, not bought and not for sale.
A German who loves his Fatherland as much as any man; but just because he loves it, he has written this book.
Opening lines of “J’accuse”—a German to Germans—published in Switzerland, April, 1915.
The book sets out to prove that the war had long been planned and prepared by Germany and Austria, not only from the military but from the political point of view.
That it had long been determined to represent this aggressive war to the German people as a war of liberation, since it was known that only thus could the needful enthusiasm be aroused.
That the object of this war is the establishment of German hegemony on the Continent, and in due course the conquest of England’s position as a world power on the principle “Ote-toi de là que je m’y mette.”
