Abstract

The Crown Prince as Archivist

This article presents information on the book "Ich Suche Wahrheit." The book is an effort to clear Germany of the indictment in Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, alleging her to have been solely responsible for the World War and the damages caused by it. The facts available in these indisputable documents make it easy for author Kronprinz Von Wilhelm to pulverize the conventional indictment of Germany contained in other works on the subject. He proves the preposterous nature of the allegation that Germany willed war from the beginning of the 1914 crisis and pushed an unwilling Austria into the conflict. He also makes out a fairly convincing case for his thesis that Germany, far from desiring a European war in 1914, actually feared its outbreak.