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"On 31 July 1914, following the German government's announcement of an 'imminent threat of war' and the issue of the German ultimatum to Russia, the Bavarian General von Wenninger dashed across Berlin to the War Ministry. The officers he found there were not in a despondent mood, but rather a cheerful one: 'Beaming faces everywhere, handshakes in the corridors, each man congratulating the next that things are finally on the move. Rumours about the...
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"Why did the Ottoman Empire enter the First World War in late October 1914, months after the war's devastations had become clear? Were its leaders "simple minded," "below-average" individuals, as the doyen of Turkish diplomatic history has argued? Or, as others have claimed, did the Ottomans enter the war because War Minister Enver Pasha, dictating Ottoman decisions, was in thrall to the Germans and to his own expansionist dreams?
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