BLOGGER: I HAVE WATCHED SKY HISTORY'S 'ROYAL MOB' WITH INTEREST AND WAS PLEASANTLY SURPRISED. IT WAS WELL PRODUCED AND INFORMATIVE. I LEARNED A GREAT DEAL.
Sadly, however - even though the programme took a number of pot-shots at Kaiser Wilhelm as an awful individual - it perpetuated the myth that The Great War was more or less an accident caused by interconnected royal families amongst the principal protagonists.
The war arose from: 1) Wilhelm letting Austria off the leash against Serbia. 2) Wilhelm threatening Russia and 3) Putting into practice the plans that he had possibly been making as far back as the end of the 19th Century for an imperialistic war across Europe.
Please consider the piece below, printed on this Blog almost eleven years ago:-
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 15, 2011
Beware of Leftwing Historians.
In August 1914, the German forces which, according to modern, revisionist
historians have been portrayed almost as victims, invaded Belgium in
accordance with their longstanding, wicked and highly calculating,
Schlieffen Plan. They thoroughly ravaged the neutrality of that independent
nation, knowing full well that their invasion would force an unwilling Britain
into the war - and seemingly not really caring. 
In
In the first month, they butchered over 6,000 innocent
French and Belgian civilians in Liège, Andenne
and Leuven, but firstly in Dinant.
Today, the leftist historians and their pacifistic
fellow travellers feel obliged to label the pointing
out of these absolute facts - 'propaganda'.
Today, we are misled that the Schlieffen Plan - or 'Warmongers' Charter' - was in fact a defensive
preparation!
Generations of schoolchildren have been given an
Generations of schoolchildren have been given an
'Oh! What A Lovely War' interpretation of history.
It is simply wrong and designed solely to begin the
It is simply wrong and designed solely to begin the
moulding process of young minds into leftist styles of thinking.
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