The failure of the Schlieffen Plan

Reasons for the failure of the Schlieffen Plan inc. Belgium, Britain and the Eastern Front. Ends at the Battle of the Marne.

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[Blowerfield]

Belgian flag is BLACK, yellow and red... not green -.-

[TheSerjy]

@Medysonball

Tbh everybody was waging war. The French had their Plan XVII and even though Britain didn't have a plan, the British were ready to cooperate with the French.

France was eager to retrieve the areas of Alsace and Lorraine which were annexed

by Germany in 1871.

Although Germany didn't have direct interests in Europe it was eager to gain more colonial land (demonstarted in 1905-6 and 1911 Morocco crisis)

It was everyone's fault, almost everybody wanted war and had their own interets.

[morgengabe1]

@Medysonball

they had planned for it for over 20 years.

[Medysonball]

"The war was going to take longer than the germans have planned." The germans didnt want war, the entete did.

[martynrobin121]

The British-French crushed the German invasion 1914, The Germans were forced on the defence and bloody Trenchwarfare.

[TalonMercenary]

The Plan actually happened in the complete opposite manner in which it was supposed to. Instead of having France beaten before the Russians could properly mobilize, the Russians were eventually beaten in 1917, while the war with France (and Britain, unforeseen) in the west dragged on

[legokid5872]

Hear the words i sing, wars a horrid thing, so i sing sing sing, ding-a-ling-a-ling

[skawhileboarding]

1:40 Bottom right corner......Hitler

[Hippophilee]

Good presentation, but with a few errors. I would add : the forts of Liege and NAMUR.

In the East, the Schlieffen Plan did not fail, as the Germans won a dazzling victory at Tannenberg.

In France, the Germans did not run "out of supplies" at the Marne.

Detail: Although several heavy German guns were nicknamed "Bertha", the name rather appeared in Spring 1918, when a huge cannon bombarded Paris from a 120 km distance – just to kill civilian and destroy churches...

[Hippophilee]

@pejb83 , as a complete, devastating victory in a battle, I would say yes, but not otherwise. Tactically, it was an encirclement, while at Austerlitz the main French attack was in the center. The Germans attacking one Russian army, then the other, looks rather like Bonaparte's early Italian campaign in April 1796.

And, strategically, Tannenberg did not end the war, while Austerlitz was followed by a peace treaty.