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from Part III - Nemesis: The Defeat of the Central Powers and the Destruction of the European Order
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 October 2022
The chapter analyses the general mood in Germany at the end of 1917, the deep desire for peace, and the general view that only military victory in the west could bring the peace, because it was considered that the Allied Powers refused negotiations and their war aims were made open by the Bolshevik government publishing the secret agreements between the Allied Powers. This chapter concludes with Delbrueck’s retrospective observation that Germany was already lost, despite having won in the east: a policy of understanding and negotiation did not work, and neither did the offensives with which Germany tried to end the war.
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