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From: STEPHEN MAYNARD <SMAYNARD@wooten.unt.edu> On 17 March, Paul Notley <pnotley2@pop3.utoledo.edu> wrote: > This strikes me as interesting. I was generally under the impression that > ever since the great Fischer debate the responsibility for the war and its > continuation lay very firmly on Germany. A perfectly understandable > conclusion, which had the converse that the Allies were fighting a > fundamentally defensive battle I assume that the Russian mobilization that helped spark Germany's entrance, and the French mobilization and attack on Alsace-Lorraine are being seen as defensive. That is a bit of a stretch. I think that looking at the origins of the war Austria-Hungary take most of the blame, but there is plenty to go around including the Allies. > and that their conduct in the war (barring > disasters like Gallipoli) was in the final balance, the only real possible > action. Allied refusal to negotiate seems to indicated that they wanted more than peace out of the war, just as the Central Powers did. Best, Stephen R. Maynard smaynard@wooten.unt.edu -------------------------------------------------------- --Public reply to list: h-diplo@msu.edu --Private reply to sender: See e-mail address under "From" at top of message --To unsubscribe send e-mail to: listserv@msu.edu with UNSUB H-DIPLO as the only text in the body of your message --To temporarily suspend your account: send e-mail to listserv@msu.edu with SET H-DIPLO NOMAIL as the only text in the body of your message. To reactivate your account, send e-mail to listserv@msu.edu with SET H-DIPLO MAIL as the only text in the body of your message --Personal help from list moderators: hdiplo@ouvaxa.cats.ohiou.edu --Visit the H-Diplo web page at: http://h-net2.msu.edu/~diplo/
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