“I shan't give this up again, I swear to you.”

— Wilhelm II, German Emperor

On a visit to Flanders in Belgium which was under German occupation, said to Rudolf von Valentini (20 October 1915), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 424, n. 1
1910s

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German Emperor and King of Prussia 1859–1941

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