'objectives in the east were not yet set out in detail... but this does not mean that they had not yet assumed concrete form.'
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'fundamental flaw in Fischer's reasoning... the assumption that Germany's war aims as stated before the war were the same as German aims beforehand'
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'German war aims not only exceeded that of any other combatant; they were aspirations to world power.'
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'to provoke a continental war against France and Russia in what appeared to be exceptionally favourable circumstances.'
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'the term preventative Abwehr [defence] fits better than preventative war, because Germany ... had hope of disrupting the entente without war.'
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'The Kaiser was under the assumption that any Austrian action could be localised in the Balkans'
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'even those... who see... the July crisis... as the main cause... of the world war are reluctant to accept that this policy was formulated a year and a half earlier by the Kaiser and his faithful followers... in a hastily convened war council'
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'the hypothesis is gaining ground... that the decision was not taken in response to the Sarajevo assassination but some time before that... as a result of... Germany's perceive humiliation in the Second Morocco crisis.'
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'for many leading Germans the positive pursuit of world power or the negative securing of Germany's position in what was regarded as a hostile world was something to be undertaken for its own sake regardless of the domestic profit or loss.'
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'the decision to build a large battle fleet represented an 'inner-political crisis strategy'
