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Some hints on Count Waldersee's plan of a "judgement day" for the social democracy can be found on pp. 82 f. The whole chapter - "I. 2. E) The army as civil war force? - The army and its domestic deployment" (pp. 81 ff.) discusses how far the military leadership and the "ultra-conservatives" would have gone to suppress the social-democratic movement. In essence
Stein argues, that the army was less inclined to shoot on civilians than some historians and researchers of German imperial militarism seem to think. He gives Waldersee as a person with an "extreme position" who knew that other people might call him "crazy or unbelievable evil".
Stein says that during the strike of dock workers in Hamburg in 1896/97 Waldersee was commander of the troops there, but he did not use them to cancel the strike, in spite of his personal believes.
Stein thus counters the argument of some historians that only the local commanders prevented a bloodbath. According to
Stein there was much bolstering talk but no action from the "ultra-conservatives".
Stein further argues that the military leadership saw their primary duty to defend the German Empire against external foes. They saw the social-democratic movement just as an internal friction to be dealt with, when they prove to be a problem during war.
Stein attributes most of the more extreme talks to the strike event in Hamburg.
Stein references the following book as source for his primary sources by Waldersee:
Meisner, Heinrich Otto (edit.), Denkwürdigkeiten des General-Feldmarschalls Alfred Grafen von Waldersee, 3 volumes, Stuttgart/Berlin 1923.
The Julius von Verdy du Vernois remark can be found on pp. 218 f. It is referenced with the following archive notation: GStA VI HA NL Waldersee BI Nr. 53, fol. 99-102 in footnote 393. The abbreviation stands for Geheimes Staatsarchiv Berlin - NL Waldersee refers to Nachlass (inheritance). The letter was written on Feb 25 1897 to Waldersee.
Stein's doctoral thesis won the Werner-Hahlweg-Price and was highly praised for the thorough research and new takes on the decision making process with regards to armament and war planning in imperial Germany.
Here is a
link to Waldersee in the German wikipedia. The English article has less information. Here is a
link to the dock worker strike in Hamburg in German wikipedia (no english article on that one).
I hope that helped. If you have additional questions, I will be glad to answer them.
Kind regards,
G.