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Caricature of the military strength of the Central Powers

“A fresh wind. The German-Austrian-Hungarian-Turkish windmill got so much energy from the spring wind that it became quite dangerous for the attacking Don Quixotes.” From: Illustrierte Geschichte des Weltkrieges 1914/15, Vol. 2, Stuttgart et al., 440

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Josef Neubauer

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    War as solution?

    Intellectual circles, writers, artists, academics, philosophers and scientists in particular saw the war as a solution to many of the problems confronting the Monarchy. They regarded the call to arms as a catharsis, a purifying force, and an opportunity to escape from the despised and weary pre-war world with its seemingly insoluble social and national conflicts.