 Complete the following phrase:  In common with the other conservative civil servants of the Imperial era, Moltke saw Germanys defeat in the First World War and the November Revolution of 1918 as twin disasters that threatened to ruin the Reich. Moltke chose to continue his diplomatic career after 1918 out of loyalty towards Germany, not the Weimar republic, which he saw as a transitional regime that would be replaced sooner or later. Moltke represented the German Foreign Office at the Allied Commission of the Upper Silesia 