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Bogdan Count v. Hutten-Czapski, one of the favourite Catholic vassals of the German Emperors William I and William II, was famous as an enthusiastic advocate of Prussian patriotism. In spite of his Polish nationality, Hutten- Czapski supported the position that all Prussian citizens, both Germans and Poles, must unite tightly under the Hohenzollern Dynasty. Hutten- Czapski tried unsuccessfully to block the proclamation and the implementation of the Expropriation Law against Polish subjects (1908). During the First World War, Hutten-Czapski was active as a secret advisor of William II seeking to build a pro-German and anti-Russian Polish puppet state in former Russian territory. An analysis of Hutten-Czapski’s life leads to the conclusion that there were circles of German and Polish nobles in Wilhelmine Germany who kept a distance from the radicalisation of both nationalisms, and that German nationalism in the Wilhelmine era was not simply a justifying ideology of the German ruling classes, but also eventually a theoretical weapon of the nationalised people against the “un-German” nobles. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]