The Great War in the East Opens, August 1914

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In the west, Imperial Germany launched the still debated Schlieffen Plan invasion of Belgium, Luxembourg, and France, a blueprint for a rapid victory on which all the hopes of the German general staff rested. This encompassed a vast turning movement through Belgium that was to strike France in a “great right wheel” to concentrate all German forces in the west.…

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