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The Schlieffenkrone in Kolberg
The Schlieffen family (or Schliefen) is the name of an old German noble family from Pomerania. The family, branches of which still exist today, originates in Kolberg.
The Schlieffen Plan (German: Schlieffen-Plan, pronounced [ʃliːfən plaːn]) is a name given after the First World War to German war plans, due to the influence...
Graf Alfred von Schlieffen, generally called Count Schlieffen (German pronunciation: [ˈʃliːfn̩]; 28 February 1833 – 4 January 1913) was a German field...
The Schlieffen family (or Schliefen) is the name of an old German noble family from Pomerania. The family, branches of which still exist today, originates...
war plans set in place by his predecessor, Count Schlieffen. What came to be known as the "Schlieffen Plan" was based on the likelihood that Germany would...
Schlieffen was a wolfpack of German U-boats that operated during the battle of the Atlantic in World War II. Schlieffen was formed in October 1943 to...
Margot von Schlieffen (26 May 1921 – 28 February 2014) was a German film editor. She worked on thirty five films and television series between 1952 and...
titled Aufmarsch II West, it is better known as the Schlieffen Plan after its creator, Alfred von Schlieffen, head of the German General Staff from 1891 to...
German Schlieffen Plan is a notable example of the cult of the offensive. Supported by offensively-minded officers such as Alfred von Schlieffen and Helmuth...
thesis that the Schlieffen Plan as generally understood was a post-World War I fabrication. He first described his views about the Schlieffen Plan in a 1999...
Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
Martin Ernst von Schlieffen (30 October 1732 in Pudenzig, Pomerania – 15 February 1825 near Heiligenrode) was a German general, politician, writer and...
two divisions forward at Liège and Namur. Field marshal Alfred Graf von Schlieffen was Chief of the German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL) from...
trajectory of the Schlieffen plan, but only up to the point where it was painfully obvious that he would have needed the army of the Schlieffen plan to proceed...
it was in 1879. Germany invaded Belgium in August 1914 as part of the Schlieffen Plan to attack France, and much of the Western Front fighting of World...
modernised their fortifications on the frontiers with Germany. Alfred von Schlieffen Chief of the Imperial German General Staff (Oberste Heeresleitung, OHL)...
To meet such a threat, Schlieffen and his successor Helmuth von Moltke the Younger drew up and continually refined the Schlieffen Plan to meet this eventuality...
as the new power. The German General Staff had therefore devised the Schlieffen Plan, which first eliminated France via nonaligned Belgium before moving...
six weeks and then turn its attention to Russia. As envisioned by the Schlieffen Plan (revised by Helmuth von Moltke), the Germans embarked on a rapid...
Patriotic consent [fr] Persian famine of 1917–1919 Powder keg of Europe Schlieffen Plan Spirit of 1914 / 1917 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk [ru] Interwar period...
and for deployment routes were based the deployment plans of Alfred von Schlieffen, the Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to 1906....
Leo von Caprivi Preceded by Helmuth von Moltke Succeeded by Alfred von Schlieffen Personal details Born (1832-04-08)8 April 1832 Potsdam, Province of Brandenburg...
pitting Germany and its allies against France and its allies. The German Schlieffen plan was to achieve a quick victory by marching through neutral Belgium...
younger) (who had chosen the old plan from 1905, made by General von Schlieffen for the possibility of German war on two fronts) told him that this was...
of his promotion to General of the Infantry in 1905, Count Alfred von Schlieffen recommended that he succeed him as Chief of the Great General Staff but...
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