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On 9 September 1914 Chancellor Bethmann Hollweg announced Germany’s ‘September Programme’ of war aims. Whether this statement of territorial demands and military and economic ambitions was a triumphant response to early victories, or a pragmatic recognition that the war would not be short, and that the German people had to be made aware of what they were fighting for in a lengthy life-or-death struggle, the pre-emptive formulation of war aims was and remains controversial.
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© 2005 Matthew Hughes & William J. Philpott
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Hughes, M., Philpott, W.J. (2005). German War Aims — The ‘September Programme’. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the First World War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230504806_6
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