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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1917 Edition.
1917. Goltz, formerly Major in the Mexican Constitutional Army,
sometime confidential aide to Captain von Papen, recalled military
attache to the Imperial German Embassy at Washington and German
Secret Agent recounts the last ten years of his existence, which he
claims it has been his fortune to be a witness and sometimes an
actor in that drama of secret diplomacy which has been going on for
so long and which in such a large way has been responsible for this
war.
1917. Goltz, formerly Major in the Mexican Constitutional Army,
sometime confidential aide to Captain von Papen, recalled military
attachi to the Imperial German Embassy at Washington and German
Secret Agent recounts the last ten years of his existence, which he
claims it has been his fortune to be a witness and sometimes an
actor in that drama of secret diplomacy which has been going on for
so long and which in such a large way has been responsible for this
war.
1917. Goltz, formerly Major in the Mexican Constitutional Army,
sometime confidential aide to Captain von Papen, recalled military
attachi to the Imperial German Embassy at Washington and German
Secret Agent recounts the last ten years of his existence, which he
claims it has been his fortune to be a witness and sometimes an
actor in that drama of secret diplomacy which has been going on for
so long and which in such a large way has been responsible for this
war.
By the time the author came to write this book he had, he says,
been in and out of the Kaiser's 'web' for ten years, having served
him faithfully in many capacities and in many places - all over
Europe, in Mexico and in the USA. Despite the title, which,
presumably, he himself gave the book, he maintains he was not a spy
nor was he a secret agent; he was a secret diplomatic agent. The
principle countries of his concern were Mexico, which the Germans
before and during the war were trying to turn against the USA (the
Zimmerman telegram was the final straw as far as the USA was
concerned), and the USA itself. There was a conspiracy, he reveals,
already ongoing during the first month of the war, to violate the
neutrality of the USA and a plot to blow up the Welland Canal in
Canada whch connected L: ake Ontario with Lake Erie. The author was
the man who planned it.There were plans to suborn German-American
citizens and one of the key players was Captain Franz von Papen who
would be Chancellor of Germany in 1932 and later Hitler's
Vice-Chancellor.At one time von der Goltz was a major in the
Mexican army, sentenced to death more than once, and in October
1914 he was arrested in the UK and held in prison for fifteen
months, expecting to be shot. In March 1916 he was taken to the USA
where he had agreed to testify for the Government against one of
the German agents and to spill the beans on German activity in the
USA
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