Bellevue Conference (September 11, 1917)
Council of the German Imperial Crown convened in Berlin / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bellevue Conference of September 11, 1917, was a council of the German Imperial Crown convened in Berlin, at Bellevue Palace,[alpha 1] under the chairmanship of Wilhelm II. This meeting of civilians and military personnel was convened by German Emperor[alpha 2] Wilhelm II to determine the Imperial Reich's new war aims policy,[alpha 3] in a context marked by the February Revolution and the publication of Pope Benedict XV's note on August 1, 1917; the question of the fate of Belgium, then almost totally occupied by the Reich, quickly focused the participants' attention. Finally, this meeting also had to define the terms of the German response to the papal note, calling on the belligerents to put an end to armed confrontation.
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Date | September 11, 1917 (1917-09-11) |
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Location | German Empire Berlin |
Type | Strategy meeting |
Participants | Wilhelm II Georg Michaelis Richard von Kühlmann Paul von Hindenburg Erich Ludendorff Oskar von der Lancken-Wakenitz |
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