Wednesday, February 21, 2024

"So, Conrad. What do you think of Serbia?"

 


Austrian general, Conrad Von Holtzendorff declared war on Serbia 25 times- and was behind the invasion of 1914 and 1915 in WW1.
Holtzendorff's strategy of marching Austrian soldiers past the Carpathian mountains lost him around 800,000 men in the process, during this offensive in war.

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