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Is anybody being fooled by this?

While Von Bethmann-Hollweg was talking of Germany's desire for peace and a cessation of slaughter, Germany was making every preparation for a renewal, more ruthless than ever, of undersea warfare.

Is anybody being fooled by this?

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A Prussian offer of Peace.

While her soldiers were driving Belgian civilians into slavery in Germany, Von Bethmann-Hollweg was issuing such beautiful sentiments as the following: “Conscious of their responsibility before God, before their own nations and before Humanity.”