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What book did Sven Hedin write?
In his book Från pol till pol, Hedin describes a journey through Asia and Europe between the late 1880s and the early 1900s.
What country did Sven Hedin want to join forces with?
He warned of the dangers he assumed to be coming from Czarist Russia, and called for a Swedish alliance with the German Empire.
When was Sven Hedin born?
Sven Hedin was born in 1865.
What did Sven Hedin think of Germany?
His studies under the German geographer and China expert, Ferdinand Freiherr von Richthofen, awakened a love of Germany in Hedin.
What speech did Sven Hedin write?
In early 1914, when the Liberal government enacted cutbacks to the country's defenses, Hedin wrote the Courtyard Speech, in which King Gustaf V promised to strengthen the country's defenses.
Did Sven Hedin have any other thoughts of Germany other than his love of the country?
He admired Kaiser Wilhelm II, whom he even visited in exile in the Netherlands.

Question: What did he think of World War I?
Self-contained rewrite: What did Sven Hedin think of World War I?