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1 giorno fa · Germany‘s pre-war strategy centered on the "Schlieffen Plan," named after Chief of the General Staff Alfred von Schlieffen. Seeking a decisive victory over France to avoid a prolonged two-front war, Schlieffen called for a massive offensive of 1.6 million men to sweep through Belgium and envelop Paris, all within just 42 days.[^1] Only a light defensive screen of 200,000 troops would hold in ...
3 giorni fa · Alfred von Schlieffen (Chief of the Imperial German General Staff) approved of Trotha's intentions in terms of a "racial struggle" and the need to "wipe out the entire nation or to drive them out of the country", but had doubts about his strategy, preferring their surrender.
4 giorni fa · Recently I read The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 by Christopher Clark.It’s a fantastic history of the events leading up to World War I, and I highly recommend it, I think I spent just as much time looking people’s names up in the index and searching Wikipedia for events that aren’t covered in significant background in this book as I did actually reading it.
5 giorni fa · And, in Holger Afflerbach's study of Erich von Falkenhayn, we have seen a major re-evaluation of the part played in promoting conflict by one of the key military figures of this period. (2) It is this historiographical context - viz. a growing and vibrant revitalisation of military history - which provides the backdrop to Annika Mombauer's new monograph on Helmuth von Moltke, the younger.
2 giorni fa · El Plan Schlieffen: objetivos y estrategia. El Plan Schlieffen fue diseñado por el general alemán Alfred von Schlieffen en 1905. Su objetivo principal era rodear y derrotar rápidamente al ejército francés, evitando así una guerra prolongada en el frente occidental. Para lograr esto, Schlieffen propuso una estrategia audaz y ambiciosa.
2 giorni fa · To The July Crisis. Before the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on 7 December 1941, the first ‘day of infamy’ for the Western world in the 20th century occurred with the assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo on Sunday, 28 June 1914.
4 giorni fa · Reinberger was carrying the first plans for the German invasion of western Europe which, as Gamelin had expected, entailed a repeat of the 1914 Schlieffen Plan and a German thrust through Belgium (which was expanded by the Wehrmacht to include the Netherlands) and into France.
