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| 1905 | Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin |  |
| Bulow alienates France over his handling of the Moroccan crisis
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| 1908 | Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin | |
| Stops Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina
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| Stops Russis opening the Dardanelles
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| 1911 | Bethmann Hollweg, Theobold von | |
| 1st July Agadir The German gunboat Panther arrives at the port of Agadir
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| 7th July Agadir The German Ambassador informs the French that Germany has no territorial aspirations in Morocco and would negotiate for a French protectorate on the basis of "compensation" for Germany in the French Congo region
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| 9th July Agadir Franco-German negotiations are initiated toward the Treaty of Fez led to a convention under which Germany accepted France's position in Morocco in return for territory in the French Equatorial African colony of Middle Congo (the Republic of the Congo)
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| 4th Nov Agadir A 275 000 kmę territory, known as Neukamerun, becomes part of the German colony of Kamerun and part of German West Africa, which only lasts briefly until they are captured by the allies in World War I
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| 4th Nov Agadir Under the Treaty of Fez Germany cedes France a small area of territory to the south-east of Fort Lamy, now part of Chad
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| 1914 | Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von | |
| 5th July Assures Francis-Joseph Germany will not desert Austria during its conflict with Serbia
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| 5th July Informs the Austria Germany will support Austria against Serbia, the "blank cheque"
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| 6th July Encourages Austro-Hungarian aggression against Serbia with unconditional support
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| 29th July Advises Vienna to mediate
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| 29th July Proposes a neutrality agreement to Britain guaranteeing France's territory
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| 30th July Declares a "state of imminent war"
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| 30th July Learns of Russia's mobilization
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| 1st Aug Demands that France abandon the Franco-Russian Alliance
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| 1st Aug Germany declares war on Russia
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| 2nd Aug Belgium is asked to accept German protection from a non-existent French attack
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| 3rd Aug Germany declares war on France
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| 3rd Aug Berk Makes an address in the Reichstag about the Russian "firebrand"
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| 1938 | Blomberg, Werner von | |
| 25th Jan Hitler & Goering were witnesses at Blomberg's wedding
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| 25th Jan It is revealed to Hitler that Blomberg had married a whore & he resigns
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| Feb Capri Blomberg goes into exile
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| 4th Feb Discredited by a marriage to a prostitute & forced to resign
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| 4th Feb Used by Hitler for him to take control of the armed forces
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| 1938 | Gruhn, Eva | |
| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute
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| 1938 | Heldorf, Wolf Heinrich Graf von | |
| Jan Gathers embarassong evidence about von Blomberg's new wife, Eva Gruhn
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| Jan Presents his dossier on von Blomberg's wife to Goering
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| 1938 | Hitler, Adolf | |
| Dismsses Blomberg & Fritsch after contrived revelations about their personal lives
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| Jan Dismisses 16 high ranking officers during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| Jan Hitler uses the crisis to appoint himself supreme commander of the armed forces
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| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute
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| 4th Feb Blomberg is forced to resign
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| 28th Sep Munich Hitler wants a conference to settle the Czech crisis, Mussolini chooses Munich
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| 1938 | Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von | |
| Forced into retirement during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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| 1938 | Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf von | |
| 1st Nov Retired after Hitler's purge of the high command after the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis
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