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The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, was a failed strategy for Germany to win World War I. The Schlieffen Plan, devised a decade before the start of World War I, was a failed strategy for Germany to win World War I.
If the Schlieffen Plan had succeeded then assuming the war started on 1 August 1914 then the war probably be finished by 1 October 1914 with an armistice followed by a peace conference. The answers so far have suggested that the Germans would take large chucks of France as part of the peace settlement. However I do not subscribe to this view! The fact that when the war started on 1 August 1914 nobody, French, Germans or Russians had any war aims (They all started to think of war aims in 1915!) and that since it was a short albeit bloody war (although somewhat smaller that the eventually butcher’s bill after four and a quarter years), the Germans would probably go for a treaty that saw a reduction of the French Peacetime Army and the demobilisation and demolition of the French frontier fortifications, and possibly a buffer demilitarised zone on the border.
Assuming the Russians would sue for peace with the French collapse, then a similar peace would be demanded from the Russians.
One should remember that the harsh peace terms demanded by the Allies in 1919 and the theoretical terms sort by the Germans if they had won were based on the number of casualties, especially deaths, and the over all financial cost of four and a quarter years instead of two months. Also remember that the German wars of unification were planned with the aims of taking land to increase the size of and the founding of the German Empire which was not the case with the Great War.
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Assuming the Russians would sue for peace with the French collapse, then a similar peace would be demanded from the Russians.
One should remember that the harsh peace terms demanded by the Allies in 1919 and the theoretical terms sort by the Germans if they had won were based on the number of casualties, especially deaths, and the over all financial cost of four and a quarter years instead of two months. Also remember that the German wars of unification were planned with the aims of taking land to increase the size of and the founding of the German Empire which was not the case with the Great War.
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