Katja Hoyer

“The German Empire did not fall to visions of democracy or socialism. Neither was it brought down by the German people or the Allies. The system fell because it was flawed from the outset, built on foundations of war, not fraternity. The maintenance of national unity required a diet of conflict, the constant hunger for which grew until catastrophe loomed in 1914. The German Empire had come full circle. It ended where it had started: in blood and iron.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918

“Thus Flottenpolitik and Weltpolitik gained Germany a small array of colonies and the second-largest navy in the world in exchange for diplomatic isolation and looming economic catastrophe.”
― Katja Hoyer, Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871–1918