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The Spirit of 1914 (German: Geist von 1914; or, more frequently, Augusterlebnis, lit. ' August Experience ' ) was the name given to the feeling of euphoria that affected parts of the German population at the start of World War I .
World War I mobilization, 1 August 1914. Germany's population had already responded to the outbreak of war in 1914 with a complex mix of emotions, in a similar way to the populations of emotions in the United Kingdom; notions of universal enthusiasm known as the Spirit of 1914 have been challenged by more recent scholarship. [1]
The Bildungsbürgertum joined in the "Spirit of 1914" that marked the outbreak of World War I with overwhelming enthusiasm. It experienced the war fervour as the dawn of a new era that would raise Germany's status among nations to the very top. Even as the war spirit declined in other social groups, it continued to spread in the Bildungsbürgertum.
The German White Book (1914) online official defense of Germany; see The German White Book. another copy; Geiss, Imanuel, ed. July 1914, The outbreak of the First World War: Selected Documents (1968). Geiss, Imanuel. German foreign policy 1871–1914, documents pp 192–218. Gooch, G.P. Recent revelations of European diplomacy (1928) pp 3–101 ...
Much of the general populace in Germany celebrated in what became known as the Spirit of 1914 after all political parties in the Reichstag voted unanimously to support Germany's entry into war. [45] [page needed]
Bethmann Hollweg remained largely unaffected by the patriotic enthusiasm in Germany in August 1914 (the so-called "spirit of 1914"). [57] A letter he sent to his friend Wolfgang von Oettingen on 30 August 1914 bears witness: "Work and hope have been sundered in my hands. But I feel innocent of the rivers of blood that now flow.
The Pan-German League went so far as to claim that the "Spirit of 1914" would eliminate the SPD because all Germans had become pan-German. [ 11 ] The truce's weakening
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