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

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...

Whether the plan was flawed or just poorly executed, the German advance collapsed for several reasons: Gerhard Ritter’s 1956 work that first began questioning

The 1905 memorandum was likely a staff exercise or a tool to advocate for more troops, not an actual operational plan for a two-front war. Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Plann...