 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima -kwakakwazisa Crisis yaJuly 1914uye kutanga kweHondo Yenyika I: muchinyorwa chaSeptember, Karl Mayr akanyora kuti hondo yakareva chinjo yomukati. Kuda nyika kwepepanhau kwakava kwakanyanyisa mumwedzi yakatevera, naCossmann achitsigirarugare rwekukunda uye Müller achipemberera Prussia se heroic-aristocratic warrior state; zvakafanana, Hermann Oncken naFriedrich Meinecke vakanyora kurumbidza kwechiuto uye hunhu hwePrussian.yakasimudzira chikuva chekurudyi chakanyanya, ichitsigira varwi vehondo Alfred von Tirpitz naErich Ludendorff vachitsoropodza zvinhu zvine mwero zvechiuto nezvematongerwo enyika. Muna 1916, Cossmann nemagazini yake vakadzivirira mutemo wehondo yepasi pegungwa yaTirpitz, vachipa uchapupu hwekuti mutsoropodzi waTirpitz Veit Valentin akanga agadzira mishumo yemauto. Idzi dzaiva nguva dzokuzivikanwa zvikuru kwemagazini yacho: hondo isati yatanga,kuparadzirwa kwayo kwakanga kuri mazana mashomanene amakopi, kuchikwira kusvika ku 3000-5000 ca. 1914, uye achiwedzera nokukurumidza pashure paikoko, padzimwe nguva achisvika 100 000. 