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Updated: May 12, 2025
To-day he is accused by the same nation of being the originator of the world war. Oncken goes back to the year 1905 and states that Sir Edward Grey initiated only two members of the Cabinet Mr. Asquith and Lord Haldane into the details of the agreement with France, and these three gentlemen he refers to as the "inner circle."
With regard to the assertion that Russia stiffened by England took a "momentous decision" on the evening of July 30th, Professor Oncken is guilty of distortion. The decision to mobilize had been taken earlier, and as M. de l'Escaille wrote, was made public at four o'clock on the morning of July 30th.
Mention has already been made that a large number of Germany's war books has emanated from the universities. For British readers the chapters by Professors Marcks and Oncken are the most interesting, viz., "England's Policy of Might" by the former, and "Events leading up to the War" and "The Outbreak of War" by the latter. They take up a fifth of the 686 pages of which the entire work consists.
Professor Hermann Oncken, of the University of Heidelberg, made this his theme in a widely read booklet, entitled, "Deutschlands Weltkrieg und die Deutsch-Amerikaner."
The trials of strength recounted by Oncken are the Bosnian crisis, the Morocco question, and the Austro-Serbian quarrel which led to the present war.
In my favorite field, I was especially struck with the historian Oncken. As a lecturer he was perfect; and I have often advised American historical students to pass a semester, if not more, at Giessen, in order to study his presentation of historical subjects.
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