He was once hailed as the “Kaiser of Peace.” By 1918, his empire lay in ruins, and millions had died in vain. To avert a “Russian scenario” like the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, Germany's military dictatorship under Hindenburg and Ludendorff made a desperate, calculated move: they handed power to civilians to seek peace. We trace the...

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