“I Did Not Want This War,” Says Kaiser (29 June 1915)

"I did not want this war"A dispatch from Berlin, sent through Amsterdam, claimed that the German Kaiser went to the Western Front to a neighbourhood where many Germans had lost their lives. According to the dispatch, the Kaiser got off his horse and knelt on the ground and offered a prayer. As he rose, he proclaimed, “Oh God, I did not want this war.”

 

“”I Did Not Want This War,” Says Kaiser,” Berlin Daily Telegraph, June 29, 1915.