ABSTRACT
A Flood of new textbooks is pouring from the German Press. Improved economic conditions and financial stabilization in part account for this. This chapter discusses the general attitude of the authors of the new textbooks toward the ex-Kaiser and the Imperial Government; examines their explanation of the causes of the Franco-Prussian War; discusses their explanation of the causes of the Great War and their attitude toward the Treaty of Versailles; and focuses on the treatment they accord the United States. After the publication of the Ems dispatch, “the German people were conscious that the French had willed the war.” And after the declaration of hostilities, according to Dienstbach, “the Germans said to themselves: ‘It was right for the Prussian king to refuse the demands of the presumptuous French.’” In the crisis following the Serajevo murder the foolhardy Government of the Kaiser risked world war by insisting on standing by Austria.
