Memoirs of the Crown Prince of Germany, The

The German Prince recalls his childhood in Potsdam and Berlin, his marriage and family, the turmoil of World War I, and his exile in Holland. Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Augustus Ernst Hohenzollern of Prussia (1882-1951) was the son of William II. In World War I he commanded (1914) an army on the Western Front and was nominal commander in the German attack (1916) on Verdun. He fled to Holland in November, 1918, and renounced his rights to the throne, but he returned (1923) to Germany with the permission of the Weimar government. These memoirs were originally published in 1922.