 Complete the following phrase:  An experienced journalist, Rathenau published in the Berliner Tageblatt an article accusing his own country of manipulating politics in Vienna. As the dual monarchys relations with Russia drifted, the paper described a secret conspiracy at work in Moltkes War department in which he had taken part. During World War I his opinions hardened. He held senior posts in the Raw Materials Department of the War Ministry and became chairman of AEG upon his fathers death in 1915. Rathenau played a key role in convincing the War Ministry to set up the War Raw Materials Department Kriegsrohstoffabteilung, KRA, of which he was put in charge from August 1914 to March 1915 and established the fundamental policies and procedures. His senior staff were on loan from industry. The KRA focused on raw materials threatened by the 