- Christoph Lindenberg. Rudolf Steiner: A Biography (Great Barrington, MA, 2012), p.466.
- Schmelzer. The Threefolding Movement, 1919, p.43; Die Dreigliederungsbewegung 1919, p.60; Hans Kühn. Dreigliederungs-Zeit: Rudolf Steiners Kampf für die Gesellschaftsordnung der Zukunft (Dornach, Switzerland, 1978), pp.14–16; Steiner. Social and Political Science, pp.5-6.
- Ibid.
- Schmelzer. The Threefolding Movement, 1919, p.43; Die Dreigliederungsbewegung 1919, p.60.
- Stewart Easton. Rudolf Steiner: Herald of a New Epoch (Hudson, NY, 1980), p.231.
- For example, in Toward Social Renewal, on pp.109-110, Steiner refers to Austro-Hungarian and German guilt for the war. And in a lecture of 29 November, 1918 (The Challenge of the Times, Anthroposophic Press, 1941), CW Vol.186, p.23, Steiner says the incompetence of the Central European governments contributed essentially to the start of the war.
Also, in his “Die Schuld am Krieg,” reprinted as an appendix in Hans Kühn’s Dreigliederungs-Zeit, we find that, according to Steiner (pp.182-183),
What was expressed in the European situation in July 1914, and what finally provided the basis for the military considerations to turn out as they did, goes back to events over the course of years. Many German personalities are to blame for these events; but they brought about these events because they saw the essence of Germany in external might and glory, not because they wanted to "rush" to war. As for those who enflame to war, the politically peaceful mood would have been finished with them in the fateful days of July; their aspirations would have run blindly out of steam, if after July 26 the things had not occurred which forged in Germany the chain of the immediate causes of war from the beginning. The decision rested on Herr von Moltke, and he had nothing to do with any warmongers, as the evidence shows. How often, after his retirement, I could hear words from his mouth that clearly said: one would never have listened to warmongers, no matter from which camp they had come. Asked about [Friedrich von] Bernhardi [author who proposed as early as 1912 that Germany wage a preventive war], Moltke gave only that dismissal that clearly indicated: Bernhardi could have written books as much as he wanted: we never listened to such people on what mattered. (cont.)
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