“The argument that Russian mobilization forced Germany into war only works if one accepts the premise that Germany only mobilized in response to Russian mobilization whereas the German documents all show that Germany was going to mobilize regardless of what Russia did or didn’t do.” 

 You are basically arguing that pre-emptive war is justified, but that it was the Russians who were pre-empting the Germans.  If Germany had such intentions though, wouldn't it have mobilized much sooner? for instance as soon as Russia began doing so, or even before?  What did it have to gain nothing from waiting except the hope of avoiding general war? 

 “Turning to Lugi Albertini, I am probably going to sound somewhat rude here, but given the opposition’s astounding lack of knowledge, I rather have no choice. Albertini s book was published in Milan in two volumes in 1942-43. The opposition may or may not know this, but Italy was ruled by a Fascist dictatorship that had allied itself with Germany. … So of course, Albertini was forced into diluting his views by Fascist censorship.” 

 Before you wrote that you might have checked his Wikipedia article, Albertini was an ANTI-FASCIST who only had time to work on it during the Mussolini regime because it had forced him to resign and sell his paper.  It was also first published AFTER the war (mid-50s) and thus was not affected by Fascist censorship but rather published amidst an anti-fascist atmosphere, I would never have bothered even reading his book if I had not checked this first.  Your ability to make snap judgments is impressive.   By your reasoning (which always assumes everyone is acting on bias no matter what) that means he should have been ANTI-German, and should increase his credibility.  I prefer not to make such assumptions personally.