"It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated."

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Military leaders from GermanyMilitary leaders of World War IPrussiansTheosophists
Original Language: English

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Letter to Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (14 June 1915), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, 'Germany', in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), p. 27