 In any case, Fischer would then be completely in the right when he denies that Bethmann seriously wanted to avoid war...If what in your view, Riezler's diary reveals is correct, I would have to discard my article, instead of publishing it...In any case we are dealing here with a most ominous ["unheimlichen"] state secret, and all historical perspectives are displaced ["verschieben sich"], since...Bethmann Hollweg's September Program then appears in a wholly different light".Trachtenberg concluded in 1991