![]() Their only way to communicate with their oversea embassies in the America's was to hand their communications ( encrypted ) to the Neutral Americans in Berlin. You see Britain had cut all of Germany's transatlantic cables. ![]() The reason he admitted ownership was because it was pointless to deny ownership. The way we can be certain the Zimmerman letter was genuine even before Zimmerman gave a press conference in Germany to defend his letter, admitted it was from him, is in the nature of the transmission of German communications with Mexico. The Zimmerman Telegram wasn't a ruse but nor was it the casus belli for US involvement in WWI. Question: Was the Zimmerman Telegram a ruse on the US or a way of Germany to incite Mexico to declare war on the US? Then he led American forces that ultimately won the First World War from Germany. "Blackjack" Pershing soon launched a counterattack that pushed Pancho Villa back into Mexico. The Germans reasoned that the Mexicans were trying to recapture Texas and New Mexico, so they offered "Mexico" Arizona and California as well, all of which Mexico had lost to the United States in the 1830s and 1840s.Īmerica's General John J. The reason the Germans thought otherwise was because the most unruly of the four major factions, the one under Pancho Villa, "invaded" the United States, crossing the Rio Grande to escape from the others. The reason was that Mexico was in throes of a "free for all" civil war at the time, which is to say that it was in a state of anarchy. Americans initially thought it was a "ruse" by the Allies until Germany's Arthur Zimmerman admitted to sending the telegram, as pointed out by one of the posters. Germany sent, or tried to send the "Zimmerman telegram" to a Mexican government that basically didn't exist. (src: Priscilla Mary Roberts, World War One p. The German saboteur Lothar Witzke, responsible for the March 1917 munitions explosion at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard in the Bay Area, and possibly responsible for the July 1916 Black Tom explosion in New Jersey, was based in Mexico City. in 1915, giving Victoriano Huerta $12 million. The German Naval Intelligence officer Franz von Rintelen had attempted to incite a war between Mexico and the U.S. The Germans had engaged in a pattern of actively arming, funding and advising the Mexicans, as shown by the 1914 SS Ypiranga arms-shipping incident *(Katz, The Secret War in Mexico pp 232-40) and German advisors present during the 1918 Battle of Ambos Nogales. (src: Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution (1984) pp 328-9 The Telegram was not an isolated case of German-Mexican collaboration, for Germany had long sought to incite a war between Mexico and the U.S., which would have tied down American forces and slowed the export of American arms to the Allies. Pershing to capture Pancho Villa in 1916, in the movement of President Carranza in favor of Germany emboldened the Germans to write the Zimmerman note (Wiki source: Friedrich Katz, The Secret War in Mexico: Europe, the United States, and the Mexican Revolution (1984) pp 346-7)īritish ruse against Germany - it wasn't the first attempt to ally with Mexico. The failure of the Americans under General John J. On the other hand, Germany had plausible reasons to believe that Mexico might be successful. ![]() ![]() On one hand, that was definitely in German interests, since they were worried that USA would declare war on Germany over unrestrained submarine warfare announcement that was forthcoming. 23.1 (1966): 76)Īs far as German ruse against Mexico (in other words, bait them with German help to attack the USA but know all along that you can't provide enough help) - it is certainly plausible, but impossible to ascertain. "The Mexican-German Conspiracy of 1915", The Americas. In addition, on March 29, 1917, Zimmermann gave a speech in which he admitted the telegram was genuine. USA entering the war against Germany on the side of Entente. ![]() It would have had (as it did) an obviously opposite effect of what Germany wanted had it been intercepted - e.g. he made up the telegram to present to Congress), this can likely be discounted since there is documentary evidence - in 2005, an original typescript of the deciphered telegram (with Blinker Hall's handwriting) was discovered in UK.Īlso, as noted below, Zimmerman himself admitted to sending it.Īs far as Germany's ruse against the USA, it was most definitely not a ruse. It's unclear if you mean whether it was (1) a ruse by Wilson against the American public, or (2) Germany against the USA, or (3) Germany against Mexico, or (4) British against USA?Īs far as being a ruse by Wilson (e.g. ![]()
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