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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Mikjo0, post: 161660, member: 3565&quot;]Drusus,</p><p>This piece is a propaganda statement from Kaiser Wilhelm II that reads &quot;I KNOW NO MORE PARTIES I KNOW ONLY GERMANS&quot; which is not exactly a declaration of war but&nbsp; is a call for unity of all political parties in order to prepare for war.Here is a paragraph detailing a meeting on August 4,1914,the date on your medal that was struck to commemorate this event.</p><p>&quot;After the Russian mobilization from 31 July 1914 the feeling in the German public that a war was about to be forced upon and the whole nation had now to stand together more firmly than ever before. A meeting of all opposition parties including the (SPD), social-democratic party closed with the sentence” I know no more parties,I know only Germans” as stated by emperor Wilhelm II,signaling his intention to the break with the past government politics in the interest of unification&quot;</p><p>Even though Wilhelm himself probably didn&#039;t write this,he later autographed photos of himself containing this statement in his own handwriting.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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