2-720-494 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Hoch the Kaiser!': cheering crowds in the streets, Berlin, Germany, 4 August 1914, (1933). Pictures of the two Kaisers, Wilhelm II of Germany and Franz Josef of Austria, are carried through Unter den Linden after Wilhelm's proclamation of war against Britain. Britain responded by declaring war on Germany and the First World War began. From "The Pageant of the Century". [Odhams Press Ltd, 1933]