User talk:Rannit
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1) Domestic politics, introduction:
Although the SPD had arranged anti-war demonstrations during the July crisis, the SPD fraction of the Reichstag accepted German war credits.[1]
the anti-war demonstrations of SPD, later the acceptance of war credits by SPD fraction in the Reichstag. The overall domestic harmony: I am no longer recognizing any parties, I know only Germans. Thanks to the situation of war the leaders of the German Empire could conciliate the social democrats without fulfilling the needed social reforms. Only the general national and patriotic enthusiasm (Erhebung) could stop the socialists' protests. In order to retain such a harmony within the borders of the Empire and at the same time not to fulfill the social reforms (so that out of a wider perspective, this policy was under any circumstances determined to fail), Germany needed a short and victorious war. An analogue to the military Schlieffen-plan had to be carried out in the domestic politics as well - so to say. Both the Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg and the Prime Minister of Saxony - von Vitzthum - regarded the situation of overall patriotism where all Germans - the nobility as well as the workers, etc - perceived themselves to be one single Gemeinschaft ("community") as the opportunity of the century (Eine günstigere Gelegenheit dürfte in den nächsten 100 Jahren kaum je wiederkommen.[2]) Then some words about the "spirit of 1914" could be added.
2) Domestic politics under military dictatorship: according to article 68 of the constitution of the German Empire, the executive power under martial law was to be given to approximately 60 high-ranking generals. ...collecting more information...
3) Problems concerning military operations. The Oberste Heeresleitung