Zimmerman: A Catastrophe

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Mar 1, 1917: Zimmermann Telegram published in United States
On this day in 1917, the text of the so-called Zimmermann Telegram, a message from the German foreign secretary, Arthur Zimmermann, to the German ambassador to Mexico proposing a Mexican-German alliance in the case of war between the United States and Germany, is published on the front pages of newspapers across America. In the telegram, intercepted and deciphered by British intelligence in January 1917, Zimmermann instructed the ambassador, Count Johann von Bernstorff, to offer significant financial aid to Mexico if it agreed to enter any future U.S-German conflict as a German ally. If victorious in the conflict, Germany also promised to restore to Mexico the lost territories of Texas, New Mexico and Arizona.

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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/zimmermann-telegram-published-in-united-states




 
It's hard to believe the telegram was actually real, and not just a hoax designed by the British. Everything about it screams forgery, but the Germans never attempted to deny sending it...
 
It's hard to believe that the Germans would try to create an alliance with people who weren't Aryans... but they did. The Axis didn't have to make sense I guess.
 
Damocles said:
It's hard to believe that the Germans would try to create an alliance with people who weren't Aryans... but they did. The Axis didn't have to make sense I guess.
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This was WWI -- there wasn't an 'Axis'.

The German Empire wasn't as overtly racist and anti-semitic as the Nazi regime.

Jews, for example, openly served in the military.
 
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