ABSTRACT
The Kaiser's memory had obviously faded. The first discussion of such German naval plans appeared in two articles by the German-American scholar Alfred Vagts in the Political Science Quarterly. The German naval documents do point up one Unikum, to use Hubatsch's term. The American strategists from the start ruled out even a temporary landing in Germany because of the distance between the two nations and the strength of the German army. After the First World War, William II denied to his blood relative George Sylvester Viereck the existence of any plans against the United States. Diederichs, that recommended an attack on the coast of New England in the event of war between Germany and the United States. A later study of American diplomacy and war plans by J. A. S. Grenville did not exhaustively treat the Black War Plan.
