The program was British. There was some hostility to Germany, but nothing I would call “hateful.” The point I took from it was that the Kaiser was still hoping for peace while the Army took the decision out of his hands. War with Russia was declared on the same day Germany invaded Luxembourg. War with Belgium and France had not been declared, but Germany’s war plans made it inevitable.
I see.
But was there any mention of the mobilization by the Russian army on the 30th of July, as well as the Russian incursion into German territory the day later, which caused the phone call by Wilhelm II to the Czar, which I had mentioned earlier in this thread? 🙂
I know that the attempt to stop the war by W II is little known, but then it was clear that the German forces had no other military option than to strike as soon as possible, in order to avoid fighting on German soil - which had happened time and again since the mid- 16th century, the Thirty years War, the wars of the Reunions, the French and Indian War, the Napoleonic Wars until 1870. All this bloodshed had really, through the centuries, resulted in a national trauma.
It was a moment in which, tragically, minutes counted.