you are focusing on the details and incorrectly mixing up the German Empire with the Nazis. The entire culture seems to have changed in just 15 years.
The big picture is that Germany was still finding itself in 1914 - it was confident, but it still had (and has) internal tensions -- neither Germany nor Italy are truly nation-states but rather countries made up of nations - nations that are close to each other (closer than Scotland and England for instance) but still distinct enough.
I know a Germanic and slavic linguist and she pointed out to me how different German dialects are more distinct from each other than different Slavic languages
Anyway, I digress, but Germany in the early 1900s was the brash newcomer but it still saw the English as a role model to emulate but France as the enemy (strangely enough it was the same with the English - when the English troops first went to France the troops were chanting that they were off to "fight the frogs" and had to be convinced otherwise!)
Germany saw France and Russia as their enemies (hangover from the Napoleonic wars). The UK saw France and Russia as its enemy and Germany as a rival. France saw Germany and the UK as enemies. Russia saw Germany as the enemy along with the Turks and the English as enemies/rivals
“Ok, so that’s what Reily posted to you — not me.
you are focusing on the details and incorrectly mixing up the German Empire with the Nazis. “
In your post you directed me to reily.
I am not focusing on details and am not mixing up this up.
Germany wanted war and to blame England id downright sick.