War is the End of all Plans

Alexander Kluge
2007-06-18

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24 min

Count Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff, developed in the years up to 1905 a promising plan which was to help the German Reich to a lightning victory should they get embroiled in a multi-front war. However, in the summer of 1914, everything unfolded totally differently. Dr. Gerhard Gross, lieutenant colonel and historian, reports.