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[...] even if we can now prove, based on the foregoing evidence, that Russia began secretly mobilizing its armed forces on 25 July 1914, this does not necessarily prove that the tsarist government had resolved on war.
In 1914 the Germans were surprised by the speed of the Russian mobilization, which brought the Russian offensive into East Prussia earlier than had been expected [...].
Oberstleutnant Maximilian Hoffmann, arguably the man behind the development of the German plan of battle [...].