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2 giorni fa · Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen, who served as chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1905, took a contrary view, and it was the plan he developed that was to guide Germany’s initial wartime strategy.
2 giorni fa · His section was led by Count Alfred von Schlieffen, a student of encirclement battles like Cannae, whose Schlieffen Plan proposed to pocket the French Army. For five years Hindenburg also taught tactics at the Kriegsakademie.
3 giorni fa · General Alfred von Schlieffen, chief of the German general staff from 1891 to 1906, had recognized Germany’s vulnerability in a two-front war and seen the best hope in an overwhelming attack against France through Belgium.
3 giorni fa · Therefore, the German General Staff, under Alfred von Schlieffen and then Helmuth von Moltke the Younger, planned a quick, all-out ground war on the Western Front to take France and, upon victory, Germany would turn its attention to Russia in the east.
5 giorni fa · World War I - Western Front, Trench Warfare, 1914: German troops swept through Belgium and engaged the French army in the Battle of the Frontiers, a series of engagements in Lorraine that involved more than two million troops and was the largest battle of WWI.
3 giorni fa · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.
4 giorni fa · In 1907, German General Alfred von Schlieffen created The Schlieffen Plan. It was developed with the goal to fight off a coordinated attack on Germany from two fronts. It was a strategy intended to prevent Germany from having to fight on both the eastern and western fronts of the war. Schlieffen believed that Russia would take time to organize ...
