All present and correct: The verifiable army of the schlieffen plan

War in History

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-115

  Holmes, Terence M ^a  

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DOI: 10.1177/0968344508097619     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. T. Zuber, 'The Schlieffen Plan Reconsidered', War in History VI. (1999), p. 305.
2. BA-MA, RH 61 /v 96. Now published in H. Ehlert, M. Epkenhans and G. Groß, eds, Der Schlieffenplan: Analysen und Dokumente, 2nd rev. edn (Paderborn, 2007), pp. 345-484.
3. T. Zuber, Inventing the Schlieffen Plan: German War Planning 1871-1914 (Oxford, 2002), p.189.
4. When Gerhard Ritter first published the complete text of this document in 1956 he said that it was 'generally known as the Schlieffen Plan'. Though dated 'December 1905', it was actually completed at the end of January 1906, which explains why it is also variously referred to as the 1905 memorandum or the 1906 memorandum (G. Ritter, The Schlieffen Plan: Critique of a Myth, trans. A. and E. Wilson, London, 1958, pp. 48, 133-34).
5. T. Zuber, 'Terence Holmes Reinvents the Schlieffen Plan - Again', War in History X (2003), p. 98.
6. T. Zuber, 'Der Mythos vom. Schlieffenplan', in Ehlert et al., Schlieffenplan, pp. 56-57, 72;
7. 'The Schlieffen Plan and German War Guilt', War in History XIV (2007), p. 104;
8. 'Everybody Knows There Was a "Schlieffen Plan": A Reply to Annika Mombauer', War
9. in History XV (2008), pp. 97, 99.
10. Zuber, 'Mythos', p. 72.
11. G. Groß, 'There Was a Schlieffen Plan: Neue Quellen', in Ehlert et al., Schlieffenplan, pp. 144-46.
12. See T. Zuber, trans, and ed., German War Planning, 1891-1914: Sources and Interpretations (Woodbridge, 2004), pp. 55-58.
13. W. Foerster, Aus der Gedankenwerkstatt des Deutschen Generalstabes (Berlin, 1931), pp. 25-26;
14. F. v. Boetticher, 'Der Lehrmeister des neuzeitlichen Krieges', in Generaloberst v. Cochenhausen, ed., Von Scharnhorst zu Schlieffen: Hundert Jahre preuß̧isch-deutscher Generalstab (Berlin, 1933), pp. 262-63.
15. R. Foley, 'The Real Schlieffen Plan', War in History XIII (2006), p. 104.
16. A. Mombauer, 'Der Moltkeplan: Modifikation des Schlieffenplans bei gleichen Zielen?', in Ehlert et al., Schlieffenplan, p. 83.
17. A. Mombauer, 'Of War Plans and War Guilt: The Debate Surrounding the Schlieffen Plan', Journal of Strategie Studies XXVIII (2005), p. 862.
18. 'Aufmarsch 1906/07', in Ehlert et al., Schlieffenplan, pp. 409-17
19. E. Ludendorff, Mein militärischer Werdegang: Blätter der Erinnerung an unser stolzes Heer
20. Foley, 'Real Schlieffen Plan', p. 105.
21. Ludendorff, Mein militärischer Werdegang, p. 100.
22. Ritter, Schlieffen Plan, p. 133.
23. Zuber, 'Everybody Knows', p. 99.
24. Foerster, Aus der Gedankenwerkstatt, p. 40.
25. see Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Die militärischen Operationen zu Lande, I (Berlin, 1925), p. 686.
26. 'Das Deutsche Heer in der Kriegsformation nach dem Stande von 1910', Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Kriegsrüstung und Kriegswirtschaft: Anlagen zum ersten Band (Berlin, 1930), table 13. The 1910 order of battle reflects the reorganization, that had taken place in 1904, when two of the five Kriegskorps were disbanded and most of their 16 active regiments allocated to reserve formations
27. see C. Jany, Geschichte der Königlich Preußischen Armee, W (Berlin 1933), pp. 296-97.
28. See Reichsarchiv, Kriegsrüstung ⋯ Anlagen, table 13.
29. Zuber, Inventing the Schlieffen Plan, p. 33
30. cf. Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg⋯ Operationen zu Lande!, p. 55, fn. 2.
31. Reichsarchiv, Der Weltkrieg 1914 bis 1918: Kriegsrüstung und Kriegswirtschaft, I (Berlin, 1930), pp. 51, 107.
32. By 1910 all of the reserve corps were properly constituted with 2 divisions each, but the erstwhile short, corps still included 15 two-battalion regiments, while one of them (the Vth Reserve Corps) had only 7 regiments instead of 8: see .Reichsarchiv, Kriegsrüstung⋯ Anlagen, table 13.
33. Ritter, SchlieffenPlan, p. 160.
34. To put the record straight, I must retract my previous inference that 27 reserve divisions were deployed in 1906/07 (T. Holmes, 'Asking Schlieffen: A Further Reply to Terence Zuber', War in History X, 2003, p. 467). But. I was not very far off the mark. The true figure was 20 reserve divisions, plus 14 reserve infantry brigades with 7 reserve divisions' worth of cavalry and artillery.
35. Groß, 'There Was a Schlieffen Plan', pp. 139-40.
36. T. Zuber, 'Terence Holmes Reinvents the Schlieffen Plan', Warin HistoryVIII (2001), p. 471.
37. June 6 1906, Reichsarchiv, Kriegsrüstung⋯ Anlagen, pp. 96-97.
38. Holmes, 'Asking Schlieffen', pp. 476-77.
39. Mombauer, 'Of War Plans', p. 877.
40. Reichsarchiv, Kriegsrüstung, I, p. 89.