Plan: German War Plann...: Inventing The Schlieffen

Gerhard Ritter’s 1956 work that first began questioning the traditional narrative. The Schlieffen Plan explained - Imperial War Museums

France had to be defeated in roughly six weeks, the time Germany estimated it would take Russia to fully mobilize its "steamroller" army in the east. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Plann...

Russia mobilized and attacked East Prussia in just 10 days , forcing Moltke to divert two army corps from the Western Front at a critical moment. Gerhard Ritter’s 1956 work that first began questioning