Identifier: menaroundkaiserm00wilerich (find matches)
Title: Men around the Kaiser; the makers of modern Germany
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Wile, Frederic William, 1873-1941
Subjects: William II, German Emperor, 1859-1941 Germany -- Biography Germany -- Politics and government 1888-1918 Germany -- Intellectual life
Publisher: Philadelphia, Lippincott
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ad to have buriedGoltz Pashas reputation. Many of the slanderousanonymous postcards addressed to him during andsince the Balkan War indicate that some of his owncountrymen are of the same mind. But there isreason to believe that a different opinion prevailsat the German General Staff. Von der Goltzremains Inspector-General of the Second ArmyInspection. The Guards, the flower of the Army,have just been added to his Inspection. William II. isnot the man to tolerate the retention of a discreditedsoldier in so vital a position, especially bluff,outspoken Goltz, who is not a personal favourite ofthe Supreme War Lord. Goltz Pasha—the titleof which he is still proud—will lead the Germansacross the Vistula, as they beheve they eventuallywill be led, because he is almost universally con-sidered the Fatherlands greatest living soldier. Field-Marshal von der Goltz reputation as anorganiser rests in his own country on his work asgeneral of the First Army Corps—the Russian border218 1 > J
Text Appearing After Image:
Ho/ph otogj-aph ) \.E. Bicber, Bc^-lin.

Note About Images