German Society and Culture without the World Wars?

I don't believe it was inevitable. You could say the the same about many conflicts. People thought conflict between the USSR and the USA was inevitable but it wasn't.
Fine, I've discussed the factors involved and even made some suggestions as to how to perhaps delay, divert or mitigate it. They all involve PODs.

Are you going to sketch out how Europe threads this particular narrow passage? A scenario perhaps?

As I've said, if major changes in not one but all European powers have to happen to avoid it, these changes change the societies from OTL baseline, and therefore it is hardly reasonable to extrapolate what the world would be like today.

Several things strongly distinguish the situation between the Western allies and the Warsaw Pact and the years leading up to WWI. For one thing, war at some level was pretty ordinary. Plenty of political analysts and actual leaders would frequently state that war would be good for the nation.

Neither the liberal Westen bloc nor Soviet bloc had that belief widely in the wake of the devastation of WWII, and that was before factoring in the risk of nuclear Armageddon.

Indeed the notion that the war would be inevitable and that therefore it would be less utterly destructive than if it happened later was probably the worst destabilizing element in that balance of terror. But had either side harbored a desire for war for war's sake surely leadership would have pounced on numerous small incidents to launch it already.

The notion war was inevitable was founded in each sides perceptions of the other. But the dynamic was entirely different.

I don't think history changes under idle whims.
 
Id love to read any materials on Austria's intel ops of the period if you have any suggestions

France's move was aggressive; modernizing their forts to have long recoil artillery, machine guns and mortars would have been defensive. Doubling, the size of their active field army when Germany hadn't increased the field in 9 years feels very aggressive

Scattered details on operations in Poland can be found in the general history of Poland by Leslie et al. There's also a few works focusing on Redl himself, like Spy of the Century. Don't know if they're all that great, though.

With regards to France, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.
 
I still think Serbia deserves most of the blame. They committed an act of state sponsored terrorism. If Syria or a other nation encouraged or funded assassination of a US president many in the US and abroad would say the United States is justified in declaring a war against them. I am actually a bit surprised any nation would support Serbia in this situation especially Russia who has experienced assassination of their leaders by radicals.

...some of whom were armed and funded by Austria-Hungary.
So yeah.

It would be probably easier to list all the nations who were not engaged in some kind of state-sponsored terrorism in the early 1900s, than to list those who were. Austria certainly was, every single Balkan country certainly was, the Ottoman Empire certainly was...the assassination of Franz Ferdinand is, if anything, one of the less clear-cut cases.
 
Antisemitism at all times seemseemed to be very strong and a cultural codified. Especially in academic, economic and intellectual circles. Even in times of prosperity.
Isn't Germany until the Nazis on the more tolerant end on treatment and views of Jews compared to most other European nations?
 
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