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On 15 May 1910, Oskar left Berlin by train.
He did not travel as a boy prince on a polite excursion. He traveled as the Crown Prince—Inspector of the East, the man shaping the future Eighth Army with his own hands—and the weight of that authority followed him like a second coat.
At his side sat Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter, neat and unreadable, Germany's State Secretary for Foreign Affairs—folders stacked beside him, the paper smelling of ink and quiet danger.
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