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The ceasefire negotiations at Brest-Litovsk, photograph, taken 15.12.1917

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    ‘… surely this war must end some time?!’

    By the end of 1916 an increasing longing for an early peace was being voiced by the population of Austria-Hungary. With no end to the conflict in sight, the countless casualties that the war had already claimed together with the continually deteriorating supply situation and food shortages, people were simply becoming ‘war-weary’.