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...After the battle of the Marne he held that Germany could not win a military victory by force of arms, consequently wanted U. S. mediation for peace. Blocked by German internal politics, by the pressure of military authorities who believed in the possibility of victory until 1918, by von Tirpitz, who spread exaggerated reports of the effectiveness of submarine warfare, Bernstorff was compelled to improvise in delaying U. S. entry into the War. With the sinking of the Lusitania, his mission lost ground steadily. After the U. S. broke off diplomatic relations with Germany, he became Ambassador to Turkey, returned...
...Empire dies out," commented Berlin's Der Abend (Socialist). "One of its last Paladins is now gone. Indeed in the whole period of the Empire there was no man who played a greater or more unwise role for Germany than Admiral von Tirpitz. He was father of the naval policy that brought Germany foolishly and unnecessarily against England and isolated her in a World...
...quite fair was this abrupt dismissal of Admiral von Tirpitz. He did alienate Britain with his ship-building program in the years before the War. More important, his ceaseless insistence on ruthless, unrestricted submarine warfare was the direct cause of the U.S. entry on the side of the allies. Yet for 20 years the commanding gentleman with the white forked beard was a German figure second in popular familiarity only to that of the Kaiser himself. (Almost unknown until 1916 was grave, grizzled Paul von Hindenburg, general of division...
Alfred Paul Friedrich von Tirpitz was born in Kustrin, Prussia, in 1849. At the age of 16 he became a cadet in the so-called Royal Prussian Navy, which then consisted of a handful of sham frigates.* In 1897, by steady regular promotion he had become German Naval Secretary and an intimate friend of the Kaiser. In 1900 his "von" was registered in the Almanach de Gotha. In 1911 he was appointed Grand Admiral, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy. All this time, with the Kaiser's enthusiastic approval he was turning British sea lords livid by building...
Years before the War, Herr von Tirpitz gave up hope of beating the British fleet in open battle, concentrated secretly on submarines, then little more than an experimental toy. Many are the stories told of the grand admiral's extraordinary technical knowledge. It was a matter of pride with him never to speak from notes. Aides recall that during his years as grand admiral he could recite from memory the name, speed, armament and displacement of every battleship in the world...