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![]() ![]() Pflanze, author of the major three volume English biography, says: Bismarck "initiated three wars (1864, 1866, 1870-1871) yet afterward successfully strove for two decades to preserve the peace of Europe against great odds.". ![]() He died in 1898 and his last two decades in office had been designed to prevent war." Steinberg quote in 2012 Steinberg said explicitly in 2012: "Can Bismarck be blamed for the First World War? Of course not." (Crankshaw, The fall of the House of Habsburg p 269.) Crankshaw says regarding the 1880s, "Thus an apparently watertight system of treaties designed to secure peace in general and the immediate piece of the Balkans and particular was woven by. ![]()
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