The Great War and the Crisis of the Kaiserreich
Introduction: "the Great War changed everything"
I.
Causes of the war and German responsibility
II. The war on the battlefields
III. The domestic politics of the war
IV. The social experience of the war
"To reform Prussia is impossible; it will remain the Junker state it is at present, or go to pieces altogether…I am convinced we are on the eve of the most dreadful war Europe has ever seen. Things cannot go on as at present, the burden of military expenditure is crushing people, and the Kaiser and his government are fully alive to the fact. Everything works for a great crisis in Germany."
--August Bebel (SPD leader), 1910
