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“The bloodbath takes place, terminating the great hopes for European civilization and extinguishing
its bright optimism, as what were set up as defensive alliance mysteriously flipped over and became
offensive war-plans”. (pg. 79)1,3
“While negative assurances had been given to the House of Commons, positive acts diametrically
opposed to these assurances had been concerted by the War Office and the Admiralty with the
authority of the Foreign Office”. (pg. 83)2
“Winston Churchill: ‘the invasion of Belgium brought the British Empire united to the field”. (pg. 84)3
“Bertrand Russel’s autobiography: ‘Sir Edward Grey lied in order to prevent the public from knowing
the methods by which he was committing us to the support of France in the event of war’”. (pg. 85)2
“As he repeatedly stated, this country is not under any obligation not public and known to
parliament which compels it to take part in any war”. (pg. 86)
“Grey had refused to promise the German Ambassador that England would remain neutral in the
event of Germany’s agreeing not to invade Belgium, though afterwards falsely informed the
Commons that he had stated these conditions”. (pg. 87-88)2
“A guarantee by Germany not to invade France had been offered, on condition of British neutrality,
and spurned”. (pg. 90)1
“Our dealings with Belgium backed with an array of facsimiles of secret diplomatic documents
discovered by them in Brussels, it would be found that our own treatment of Belgium was as little
compatible with neutrality as the German invasion”. (pg. 91)1
“Grey had to obey an impulse to make the declaration which made it necessary for the neutrality of
Belgium to be violated”. (pg. 92)2
“The hallmark of Britain’s successful propaganda efforts were alleged German atrocities of gigantic
proportions that strongly influenced naïve Americans yearning for a chivalrous war from afar”. (pg.
93)3
“War-plotters would have known of the mobilisation of the world’s biggest navy, that of Great
Britain, was ready for war”. (pg. 94)1
“The secret Elite, having successfully ambushed the British nation into war, inflamed popular passion
by portraying the German rulers as monstrous criminals”. (pg. 95)1,3
“Sophisticated propaganda machine”3(pg. 95) Nicholas Kollerstrom, born in 1946, is an English
historian of science and author, who is especially known for Holocaust denial and the promotion of
conspiracy theories. He was educated throughout the events of the Cold War, in 1968, he graduated
with a Bachelor of Arts in Natural Sciences from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge. He also earnt a
PhD in 1995 at University College London in the history of sciences. How does his influences effect
his interpretation of the outbreak of the First World War? creditability as a historian references a
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