#8: 1-4 July 1914 - 'Are You Certain of Germany?'

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

19th Century, 20th Century, International Relations, Politics, Thirty Years' War, Korean War, 18th Century, First World War, Phd, 17th Century, European History, History, War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Now that Vienna had decided to use war against its Serbian neighbour, the mission became one of guaranteeing German support. As we discuss in this episode, in Austria's estimation it was far from certain that Berlin would give this support. The record of diplomatic crises and cooperation in recent years suggested that Germany might even try to contain Austria's response, and prevent it acquiring the satisfaction it needed.

To confront this dilemma, Austrian Foreign Minister Count Berchtold rallied his colleagues around him, and plotted to confront the Kaiser once Franz Ferdinand's funeral took place. Unfortunately for him, the Kaiser was not coming. Vienna was too unsafe, it was said in private, and Germany would not risk its Emperor if the Serbs struck again. Such an embarrassing turn of events forced Berchtold to consider plan B. If Germany would not come to him, he would send his best men to Germany instead...

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0:42.1	In summer 1914, the world went to war.
0:47.0	Now 110 years later, we go back to those figures, to those debates, to those questions,
0:54.1	in the greatest failure in the history of diplomacy.
0:58.0	I am Dr. Zach Twomley. You're listening to When Diplomacy fails.
1:03.0	And this is the July crisis. I'm Before anything else, we must ask Germany whether she intends to back us up against Russia or not.
1:46.8	Conrad von Hotsendorf to Count Berchtold, 1st of July 1914.
1:57.0	As Austrian foreign minister Leopold von Berkdold struggled against the resistance of his Hungarian counterpart Stefan Tisa and the Emperor, the central importance of Germany to any Austrian war policy became more and more apparent.
2:13.9	As this episode will show, Austro-German military cooperation and planning in the years before
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