WW1

 WW1(War)

Date	28 July 1914 - 11 November 1918
Interest of	British War Propaganda Bureau, Charles August Lindbergh, Jim Macgregor, Hew Strachan
Subpage	•WW1/Commission for Relief in Belgium •WW1/Key Players •WW1/Origins
Description	The "Great War". Perhaps 10 million killed.

The official version

The immediate proximate cause - the casus-belli of the Official Narrative - was the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo by a young student, Gavrilo Pricip, acting in concert with a few other members of a small but isolated group of Bosnian Serb nationalists. The assassination is held to have provided a warmongering Germany with an excuse to support Austria in holding the Serbian authorities to account, knowing that in doing so it would provoke France Russia and Britain beyond endurance. In other words, that Germany engineered events in order to to justify pre-planned military aggression and the subjugation of the rest of Europe - and in doing so took everyone by surprise.

What really happened

Full article: The Genesis of World War I

A close-knit secretive group of unscrupulous men, whose roots and origins were in Britain, were intent on both defending and expanding Britain's existing Imperial dominance of much of the planet against actual or potential challenge. In the decade or so preceding war, Germany was seen as a serious looming challenge that would have to be dealt with. Vast personal fortunes were involved. The plans of this group were justified in the philosophy of John Ruskin and propagandised in the stirring prose and poetry of Rudyard Kipling. The entire world was to be ruled, through the benign subjugation of lesser races, by an enlightened Anglo-Saxon empire whose functionaries were enjoined to "take up the White Man's burden" . This group of men, organised and tasked in the manner of an elite secret society, deliberately sought and planned for war to crush Germany between France and Russia, and orchestrated events in order to bring this about.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Authors' Declaration of September 1914	manifesto	September 1914	British War Propaganda Bureau H. G. Wells Hilaire Belloc Rudyard Kipling Arthur Conan Doyle Arnold Bennett Thomas Hardy J.M. Barrie G.K. Chesterton John Galsworthy H.R. Haggard Jerome K. Jerome	An declaration in support of World War 1 by 53 leading British authors. One of the earliest efforts of the nascent War Propaganda Bureau to craft a coherent intellectual message in support of the war effort.
Document:Commission for the Relief of Belgium 1	article	5 August 2015	Gerry Docherty Jim Macgregor	The organisation, promotion and diversion of Belgian 'relief funding' for the hidden but nonetheless express purpose of prolonging the war
Document:Commission for the Relief of Belgium 2	article	12 August 2015	Gerry Docherty Jim Macgregor	The organisation, promotion and diversion of Belgian 'relief funding' for the hidden but nonetheless express purpose of prolonging WW1.
Document:Good war - Bad war	article	12 February 2014	John Pilger	A short readable expose of how the myth of the "Good War" is used by the Western Establishment to fashion our 'reality' - focussing on the largely forgotten devastation visited upon the Korean peninsular by the US and its victorious World War II allies.
Document:Hidden History - Concluding chapter	book extract	4 July 2013	Gerry Docherty Jim Macgregor	The concluding chapter of a seminal work of historical revision on the origins of World War I and 100 years of establishment lies to hide where responsibility really lies
Document:What We Need to Learn From TE Lawrence	book introduction	25 March 2011	Michael Korda	Michael Korda's introduction to his book "Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia", a biography of TE Lawrence

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• Category:World War I