The German Emperor and the Peace of the World (1912): Alfred H. Fried’s Pre-WWI Reappraisal of Kaiser Wilhelm II
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The German Emperor and the Peace of the World (1912): Alfred H. Fried’s Pre-WWI Reappraisal of Kaiser Wilhelm II
Author: Alfred H. Fried
Year: 1912
Fried, Alfred H. The German Emperor and the Peace of the World . Preface by Norman Angell. New York: Hodder and Stoughton, 1912. Contextual Background Published in 1912, Alfred H. Fried’s The German Emperor and the Peace of the World offers a critical yet hopeful portrait of Kaiser Wilhelm II as a misunderstood and underappreciated advocate for peace in the pre-World War I era. Fried, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and lifelong pacifist, set out to challenge the prevailing caricature of Wilhelm as a belligerent “War Lord” and instead portray him as a potential “Peacemaker”—a ruler whose public speeches and political conduct demonstrated a genuine concern for international stability and the peaceful development of nations. The book’s Preface , written by Norman Angell (author of The Great Illusion ), reinforces Fried’s argument by urging Anglo-American readers to reconsider their assumptions about the Kaiser. Angell asserts that Wilhelm had been unfairly maligned in British media despite his repeated gestures of friendship toward England. Angell and Fried both emphasize the Kaiser’s long, war-free reign (from 1888 to the book’s publication) as evidence of a broader imperial policy roo
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