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Leopold Graf Berchtold, Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister at the time of the outbreak of the war, illustration, 1917

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Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur-und Betriebsges.m.b.H./Fotograf: Alexander E. Koller

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    Leopold Graf Berchtold

    Berchtold was the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister at the outbreak of war in 1914.

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    Attack as the best form of defence

    Around 1900 there was a change of generation in the political leadership. Increasingly, the aged Emperor withdrew from day-to-day politics and became more of a symbolic figure.