On 17 Aug., 03:23, Dom <DR...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> I was absolutely startled when I read:
>
> "On 7 June [1918] he [the Kaiser] 'emphatically endorsed'
> incor****ating Georgia in the Reich ..." [Michael Balfour, "The Kaiser
> and his Times," Houghton Mifflin (1964) p.390]
>
> I was not aware that the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk gave the Germans
> control of Transcaucasia. How was this incor****ation going to be
> accomplished? Was this an annexation? I would appreciate any
> information.
I think you can't take this quote literally, but the Germans tried to
foster independence movements throughout Czarist Russia to replace
Russian imperialism with German satellite states / kingdoms. German
troops fought as "free corps" long after the end of the world war
against the reds.
Google for: "Committee of Independent Georgia" and "Georgian Legion"
which was a German-sup****ted army built out of POWs
regards
Sirius
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