ABSTRACT
The author says there was a rumbling in the world like distant thunder in Agadir and Panther affair had occurred; people began to speak of war as if it were imminent, yet nobody took it seriously. There was more than ordinary murder in Sarajevo, followed by more than ordinary display of threats and ultimatums. And then one morning big headlines: general mobilization in Russia, in France, in Germany. That terrible day when peace ended and war began was very different that first time from the next time twenty-five years later. The author knows that a violation of Belgian neutrality was one of the features of German strategy and that the refusal to give up the plan had brought England into the war. In the war years several new universities were founded: Frankfurt am Main, Cologne, Hamburg. In all of them there were medical, scientific and law schools of good academic standard and considerable funds were available, given by wealthy merchants.
