The Wilhelmine Era History 323 / Feb. 25, 2013. The Congress of Berlin, 1878.

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The Wilhelmine Era History 323 / Feb. 25, 2013

The Congress of Berlin, 1878

German colonies in Africa: Togo, Cameroon, Southwest Africa, Tanganyika

Wilhelm II ( ; r )

Paul Kruger and the Boer War (click here for the text of the “Kruger Telegram,” sent by Wilhelm II to Kruger on Jan. 3, 1896)here

Wilhelm II delivers his “Hun speech,” July 1900 (click here for a newspaper account of his comments)here

Admiral Alfred (von) Tirpitz State Secretary of the Imperial Naval Office,

HMS Dreadnought (1906)

The Panther, the ship that sailed into Agadir

The Kiel Canal (completed 1895)

Route of the Kiel Canal (labeled in blue as the “Nord-Ostsee-Kanal”)

The Schlieffen Plan (introduced 1905)

Heinrich von Treitschke ( )

The Wilhelm I statue at the “Deutsches Eck,” Koblenz

The Bismarck memorial, Berlin

The Bismarck memorial, Hamburg (completed 1906)

The Battle of the Nations monument, Leipzig (completed 1913)

Inside the Leipzig monument

Navy League postcard

Heinrich Class ( ) President of the Pan-German League, Author, If I were the Kaiser (1912)

Friedrich Nietzsche ( ) Major Books The Birth of Tragedy (1872) The Gay Science (1882) Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883) Beyond Good and Evil (1886) The Genealogy of Morals (1887)