Chapter 401: Germany's Strategic Shift

11th May 1915, Germany, Berlin City Palace, Imperial military conference.

The meeting room in the Berlin City Palace had been brightly lit for two days. William II, along with several senior German officers and Chief of Staff Fakinham, had been holding a conference that lasted for two full days.

The time of war was so urgent that the sole reason William II, the German Chief of Staff and numerous high-ranking officers were summoned here was that Germany was facing a difficult choice at the moment.

No matter how proud and arrogant William II was, he too sadly had to admit that Germany had been defeated in the current conflict. Any decision could possibly lead to the obliteration of Germany's painstaking efforts over decades.

If the failure on the Westline battlefield last year had dashed Germany's hopes for a quick end to the war, the successive defeats this year on the Eastern Front and the Westline had gradually led Germany to the abyss.