'Germany Armed to the Teeth ': The Potential of the Kaiser's Armed Forces at the Beginning of the Great War

摘要

of the main theses concerning World War One, not only for the propaganda of the Entente countries, but also for subsequent historiography, has been the highlighting of the extreme militarism of the German Empire, which reached a new level just on the eve of the war. In addition to a comparative analysis of the military efforts of the great powers, it is important to compare the possibilities of Germany and the results achieved by it by August 1, 1914, in military development. By taking into account the peculiarities of the Kaiserreich, from its federal structure to subjective factors in the functioning of its higher authorities, it is possible to relativize the primary statistical conclusions, again raising the question of the ratio of objective indicators and propaganda cliches in the historiography of the causes of the Great War formed over a century and its timeliness for those great powers or others.