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Chapter 5
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Wilhelmine Germany and the First World War (1890-1918)
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Kaiser Wilhelm II (1890)
“Dropping the Pilot” (1890)
Homage to Bismarck (August 10, 1891)
Wilhelm II: The Swearing-In of Recruits in Potsdam (1891)
Social Democratic Tactics: Georg von Vollmar (1891)
The Erfurt Program (1891)
Socialist March (1891 / recorded 1974)
Eduard Bernstein (c. 1890)
The Conservatives Embrace Antisemitism: The Tivoli Program of the German Conservative Party (1892)
Caligula: A Study in Roman Imperial Insanity by Ludwig Quidde (1894)
Inauguration of the Reichstag (December 5, 1894)
SPD Party Conference in Breslau (October 6-12, 1895)
German Civil Code (1896)
The Death of Bismarck (1898)
Socialist “Revisionism”: The Immediate Tasks of Social Democracy (1899)
Map: Reichstag Election Results by Party (1899)
Socialist “Radicalism”: Rosa Luxemburg’s “Social Reform or Revolution?” (1899)
A Police Officer Reports on Workers in a Hamburg Tavern (1898–1909)
Wilhelm II: “Hun Speech” (1900)
“Hun Speech”: Kaiser Wilhelm II’s Address to the German Expeditionary Force Prior to its Departure for China (July 27, 1900)
The German Naval Office and Public Opinion (September 24, 1900)
National Liberal “Underwear” (1900)
Germanization Policy: Speech by Ludwik Jazdzewski in a Session of the Prussian House of Representatives (January 15, 1901)
Statutes of the Pan-German League [Alldeutscher Verband] (1903)
“Glorious Deeds of the Reichstag, 1898-1903” (1903)
International Women’s Congress (1904)
Count Arthur von Posadowsky-Wehner Calls for a Virtuous Renewal of Bourgeois Society (1905)
Reich Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow’s “New Year’s Eve Letter” (December 31, 1906)
Rosa Luxemburg Addresses a Crowd (1907)
Bernhard von Bülow on Conservatism and Liberalism in German Politics (November 30, 1907)
The Daily Telegraph Affair (October 28, 1908)
Leipzig Demonstration against Three-Class Voting in Saxony (November 1, 1908)
Prussian Electoral Reform (1909)
Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg (1909)
Foreign Jews in Total Jewish and Alien Populations (1910)
Elections to the Reichstag (1890–1912)
A Constitution for Alsace-Lorraine (1911)
The Tragedy of a Strike (1911)
The Mobilization of the Countryside: Program of the Agrarian League [Bund der Landwirte] (1912 version)
Shades of the Future?: Daniel Frymann [Heinrich Claß] (1912)
The Inevitability of War: General Friedrich von Bernhardi (1912)
Women’s Suffrage! (March 2, 1913)
“Voting Magic, East of the Elbe” (1913)
Parliament Debates the Zabern Affair (1913)
The Zabern Affair: “The Alsatian Bogeyman” (1913)
Give Us Women’s Suffrage (March 1914)
A German Voice of Opposition to Germanization (1914)
Reichstag President Johannes Kaempf, Speech on the Outbreak of War (August 4, 1914)
The Minister of the Interior on Domestic Reform (May 1915)
Opposition within the SPD (June 19, 1915)
The Party Leadership Responds to Opposition (August 14 – 16, 1915)
Helene Stöcker (c. 1915)
Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg on Germany’s Political Future (February 27, 1917)
Bethmann Hollweg on Constitutional Reform (March 1917)
The Independent Social Democratic Party of Germany: Guiding Principles (April 1917)
Wilhelm II’s “Easter Message” (April 7, 1917)
The Reichstag’s Peace Resolution (July 19, 1917)
Chancellor Michaelis’ Interpretation of the Peace Resolution (July 19, 1917)
The German Fatherland Party (September 1917)
The Majority Parties Request Parliamentary Rule (October 1917)
Reich Chancellor Max von Baden (1918)
Supplement to the Leipzig Court Journal: “Armistice Accepted” (8. November 1918)
Wilhelm II Goes into Exile the Day after the Announcement of his Abdication (November 10, 1918)
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