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That the General Staff wanted war with Russia was indicated by Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel's list of military grievances, which included many alleged frontier violations. With the power now held by the Army in Germany, the suddenness with which war was declared showed that Germany could be satisfied with nothing less than destruction of Russia as a power...
Invading Russia beat Napoleon. Perhaps it beat Kaiser Wilhelm. But Adolf Hitler thinks he can do it differently. He is deep in plans for the Ukraine. Some time ago he discovered Puppet Skoropadsky living on memories, polishing the Order of the Black Eagle which the Kaiser had given him, in a little house on the Wannsee, near Berlin. Skoropadsky thought his violent days were over; he no longer played the Cossack blindman's buff in which the blindfolded man tries to shoot his companions...
This tells what goes in and what comes out. The mystery is how the transmutation is achieved. The classic explanation, commonly accepted until recently, was proposed in 1870 by Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Adolf von Baeyer, and amplified by Nobel Prizeman Richard Willstütter of Munich: Under the influence of chlorophyll, carbon dioxide and water combine to form formaldehyde (CH 2 O) and free oxygen. Then, under the influence of light, six formaldehyde molecules somehow assemble into one glucose molecule...
...Triple Entente, giving Germany enemies on both sides. Yet history has shown that a deeper, more instinctive fear of the Germans had led Europe always to oppose them. Under the Kaiser, Germany once more swelled with power and pride; once more she threatened to burst her boundaries. Under Wilhelm, Germany built a mighty Navy to threaten Britain, a mightier Army to threaten France and Russia, a mighty economy which threatened to follow the Kaiser's pet Berlin-Bagdad Railway to domination of the Middle East (see p. 22). The Triple Entente was born of this fear. Cried the Kaiser...
...Died. Wilhelm Hohenzollern, 82, retired emperor; at Doom...