Title: The Secret War on the United States in 1915
Description: The Secret War Council, Germany’s spy organization in New York, received orders from Berlin to stop the flow of munitions through terrorism in January 1915. German agents in the U.S. firebombed freighters on the high seas, incited labor unrest, fomented troubles along the Mexican-American border, and damaged or destroyed dozens of American factories and logistics installations. The German secret war against the United States in 1915, its discovery and publication, combined with the disastrous sinking of the Lusitania in May of that year, did much to prepare the American public to finally accept joining the Entente powers against Germany in 1917. This is the story of a group of German agents in the United States, who executed this mission.
Subjects: Sabotage, World War I, German Secret Service, Labor Unrest, Great Bridgeport Strike, Biological Warfare, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Firebombs, Terrorism, Lusitania Sinking, Market cornering, Arms smuggling
Places: New York, Baltimore, El Paso, New Orleans, Welland Canal, San Diego
People: Heinrich Albert, Franz von Papen, Karl Bopy-Ed, Johann Heinrich Count von Bernstorff, Bernhard Dernburg, David Lamar, William Bayard Hale, Felix Sommerfeld, Pancho Villa, Franz Rintelen, Walter Scheele, Carl von Kleist, Carl Heynen, Franz Bopp, Frederico Stallforth, Robert Fay, A. Bruce Bielasky, Thomas Tunney, Hans Tauscher
Time periods: 1915