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All Present and Correct: The Verifiable Army of the Schlieffen Plan

Despite the recent wave of attacks on his view that `there never was a "Schlieffen plan"', Terence Zuber stands by his `central thesis', which is that the Schlieffen plan called for 96 divisions at a time when the German army could deploy only 72. This article will disprove Zuber's calculations. The Schlieffen plan called for 90 divisions, not 96. The official deployment plans of 1906 involved 78 divisions, including two of the ersatz corps that Zuber says were `non-existent'. From the official discussion about those two ersatz corps we can prove that it would have been perfectly feasible to raise eight of them altogether, as required by the Schlieffen plan.

War in History, Vol. 16, No. 1, 98-115 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0968344508097619


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