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Materials relating to Origin of the War
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appeared in June a German White Book, intended to make an impression on the victorious nations in favour of Germany during the peace negotiations. In reality, it only helped to compromise anew the German foreign policy. The reason for this we shall see later.

There has since appeared another work which forms the chief source of the following exposition, the collection of documents relating to the authorship of the war, brought together under my superintendence.

Any other material that has been published is supplementary in details, but does not alter the general impression.

According to all this material, how did the course of events really proceed?