Wilhelm II had really guessed half of it right. Otherwise, in the previous life, there would not have been that supposedly unsullied, morally noble German Defense Force that had refused to "go along with Adolf," while every evil deed had supposedly been committed by Adolf and his private army.
Just as, after their defeat in the First World War, they had swiftly drawn a line between themselves and Wilhelm II and dumped the blame on him.
Only the Soviets had seen through them clearly. Later, they de-Prussianized Germany and pulled them up by the roots. Thus, even without Adolf, Germany would still have been driven toward war by the Junker group.
This fully proved one point: Russians understood Germans just as Germans understood Russians—they knew each other too well. It was much like Britain and France, those two sworn enemies; once one bent over, the other knew exactly what kind of fart was about to come out.
Wilhelm II had only guessed half of it right because he did not understand Adolf as a person. Adolf was plainly not someone the Junker group could easily manipulate, so he had never trusted the German Army as Wilhelm II had. That was why he kept a private armed force loyal only to himself.
At the same time, Adolf did not place much importance on personal gain, at least compared with his extreme ideas of "German Nationalism," "militarism," and "expansionism." Therefore, his interests aligned with those of the Junker group. He did not care whether the Junker group profited from war or how much benefit they skimmed off; what he cared about more was whether this force could help him realize Germany's dream of expansion.
As a professional military-political group that had risen through military merit and maintained an orderly inheritance, the army