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Germany declared war on Russia one hundred years ago today, on Saturday 1st August 1914 (four days after Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia). France ordered a general mobilisation. By 7:00 pm of 1st August, German troops had invaded Luxembourg. Over 16 million people were to be killed in the next four years, and the catastrophes of the 20th and the current century in Europe and the Middle East were set in motion. One thing is clear: none of the prizes for which the politicians of 1914 contended was worth the cataclysm that followed. and later. ...protagonists of 1914 were sleepwalkers, watchful but unseeing, haunted by dreams, yet blind to the reality of the horror they were about to bring into the world. Christopher Clark, Sleepwalkers, Penguin/HarperCollins
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 08:19:07 +0000

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