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By Marilyn Shevin Coetzee

ISBN-10: 0195061098

ISBN-13: 9780195061093

This e-book strains the advance of the German military League from its inception in the course of the earliest days of the Weimar Republic. based in January 1912, the League promoted the intensification of German militarism and the cultivation of German nationalism. because the final and moment biggest of the patriotic societies to emerge after 1890, the League led the crusade for military enlargement in 1912 and 1913, and opposed to the starting to be effect of socialism and pacifism inside of Germany. trying to harness renowned and nationalist sentiment opposed to the government's overseas and family rules by means of preying on Germans' fears of defeat and socialism, the League contributed to the polarization of German society and annoyed the overseas tensions which culminated within the nice conflict. Coetzee combines an research of the League's important personalities and regulations with an exploration of the internal workings of neighborhood and local branches, arguing that instead of having served completely as a barometer of populist nationalist sentiment, the League additionally mirrored the machinations of fellows of schooling and prominence who believed that an unresponsive German executive had stifled their very own careers, dealt ineffectually with the chance of family unrest, and squandered the nation's army superiority over its ecu opponents.

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81 Socialists reacted to this occasion by assailing the league as a militaristic monster. The Leipziger Volkszeitung proclaimed that "aside from professional warmongers and a few ultra patriots there was no one to speak of [in attendance]. "82 Nor did the fledgling association strike a responsive chord within the nationalist camp. In particular, supporters of the fleet worried that the Army League would take the wind out of the Navy League's sails and jeopardize the navy's portion of the forthcoming military budget.

Paasche felt compelled to justify his support for the Army League and his participation in it, stressing that "moderates" like himself could advocate the league's cause: "At the request of others . . , Keim], I joined the Army League. I truly believe the Army League is headed in the right direction . . "29 The equally loquacious Eduard v. Liebert, Free Conservative, an Army League member and president of the Imperial League against Social Democracy, provoked a round of hisses from the Socialist deputies with his assertion that the army was the nation's first line of defense (against domestic enemies as well) and thus it had to be fortified regardless of the cost.

Throughout that year and into 1911 Keim reiterated his message that the German army could no longer rest upon its laurels and would have to struggle to catch up with its Continental rivals. 54 In 1910 the foundations for the Army League were being laid, but it took the Second Moroccan Crisis of 1911 to secure them. "56 Through indecision and incompetence, the government, the Pan-German League insisted, had failed to prevent Germany's nightmare from becoming a reality: the nation stood alone in the heart of Europe with enemies poised on all sides and fielded an army that was insufficiently prepared.

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