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German Chief of the German General Staff Erich von Falkenhayn had always been reluctant to help the Austrians. Both he and Austro-Hungarian Chief of the General Staff Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf thought that Italian intervention, especially if, as both felt likely, it came together with Romanian intervention, would mean the end of the war—the Italian […]

German Cavalry entering Warsaw on August 5, 1915. Not until April 1915 did OHL inform OAK in Vienna how it planned to use Mackensen’s 11th Army, and only then because it required Conrad to transfer two corps of his 4th Army to Mackensen’s command. Conrad again protested that the area of intended operations was on […]