Verrater an dem Kaiser

Count Robert Zedlitz und Trütschler, 60, a retired officer of the famed Prussian Guards and quondam Marshal of Kaiser Wilhelm's Court, wrote a book, Twelve Years at the German Court.

The Count had no good word to say for the Kaiser and he charged the great Field Marshal von Hindenburg and other officers of high rank of fawning upon the Kaiser, whom he represented as treating them as dogs and slaves.

The ire of the House of Zedlitz was aroused. Baron Eberhard von Zedlitz and Neukirch, second in command...

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