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He was not at all responsible. Ever since the "Daily Telegraph" Affair in 1908 when he'd made an utter fool of himself by claiming in an interview that he had won the Boer War for Britain, his wings had been clipped.

(During World War 1 he was held up as the chief bogeyman, and in 1918 David Lloyd George promised 'to hang the Kaiser', but this presumption of guilt was based on his image, not on evidence). In Germany in 1914 real power, in respect of matters like war and foreign policy, was in the hands of the German General Staff, headed by Helmut Moltke, Junior. These were the people who barked out the orders that the Kaiser and his politicians had to obey; they were the men who plunged Europe into a disastrous war. There's an excellent book on the outbreak of WW1 by David Fromkin: * Europe's Last Summer: Who started the Great War in 1914?(2004) http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Special:Booksources&isbn=0375411569, http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Special:Booksources&isbn=037572575X (paperback) Joncey

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