“What he is most lacking in are fixed aims and the faculty of persisting in the line he has taken up.”

— Alfred von Waldersee

Waldersee on his diary, 16 March 1892, describing Kaiser Wilhelm II

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Prussian Field Marshal 1832–1904

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