What I am giving now is a series of significant documents drawn from existing originals. At the time a good deal of the negotiation was carried on by word of mouth but it was always along the same lines as are revealed in the written records.

From my sphere of activity as Director of the Concentration Section of the Great General Staff I have taken the letters which-form Chapter I. In order to show what great pains the General Staff took to build up the army of the German Empire and enable it to face the coming war in a military sense.

My object in reproducing diplomatic documents, though some of them are already known, is to bring home to every German that a peace of understanding was unattainable, and to reveal how much was kept secret from the Supreme Command by the Imperial Government.

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