... term threat posed by Russia and France, Germany’s growing strength, including in merchant shipping, loomed large as a security problem in the decade and a half before 1914. The wartime activities of German commerce raiders, notably the Kronprinz Wilhelm, suggest that fears of a German commerce war ...
Tópico(s): Scottish History and National Identity
2016 - Taylor & Francis | Diplomacy and Statecraft
... reading programme which she prescribed for her son Wilhelm and which included Freytag's Die Ahnen . This novel cycle was dedicated to the Crown Princess and refers frequently to German‐British relations. At that period Freytag regarded literature as a tool for nation‐building and, at the same time, as a medium of intercultural understanding. Later on, in his reminiscences Der Kronprinz und die Kaiserkrone , Freytag broke with Victoria and ...
2012 - Wiley | German Life and Letters