Richard Werner

It was a high growth economy again.

and people benefited, prosperity, the middle class.

It was quite impressive, the city's beautiful, massive public investment, railway network, schools, universities, science.

You know, this is the beginning of science being German dominated.

In the first half of the 20th century, the majority of scientific publications were in German.

And all the leading research was in these publications.

That was where things were happening.

And other countries were following, were looking at this model.

Now, the place that didn't like that was the hegemon of the world, Britain.

That clearly was, from their viewpoint, a rival being built up and growing.

And it is one thing to start to lose market share, because Britain used to be the number one economic power, industrial revolution, and mass production really happened first in Britain.

and then spread from there to other countries.

So Britain was in the sequence, chronology of economic development was number one.

But then soon after Germany came in, of course, also at the same time, America also rose as a emerging economy, high growth economy as well.

Let's not forget that.

But of course, America is further away and was for international documents using English.

So I suppose the British felt less immediately threatened by America.

Germany is very close and the decision was made, we've got to do something about this.

But a key turning point in this, in really resolving the British goals and creating this conviction that war has to be made on Germany, was the following development.

So British power was projected across the globe through the seas, the oceans, the navy, because it was a global empire, from Britain to Australia and many parts of the world.