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OTL Germany and Wilhelm II assured Austria of their support after the asassination of Franz Ferdinand. This finally let Austria declare the war on Serbia it wanted in the last years.

However how would this crisis played out if Germany wanted to avoid war from the get go? (OTL Wilhelm got cold feet in the last moment but tha was too late to alter Austria's course)

Would the GP's let Austria handle it with Serbia and their just trying to mediate and influence them from the side line? Or would this end on a conference?

Im sure there would be an investigation and im sure Austria never would accept the serbian police to make it. They have a good case and if its an international investigation and not only Austria that the GP's decided on Serbia would have a much harder time to refuse. Its an interesting question who would be part of the investigation (beside Austria). Also what would happen if the investigation uncovered that high ranking government officer were part of and had close ties to the organisation responsible for the asassination?
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