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| 1905 | Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin |  |
| Bulow alienates France over his handling of the Moroccan crisis |
| 1908 | Bulow, Bernhard Heinrich Martin |  |
| Stops Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia and Hercegovina |
| Stops Russis opening the Dardanelles |
| 1914 | Bethmann Hollweg, Theobald von |  |
| 5th July Assures Francis -Joseph Germany will not desert Austria during its conflict with Serbia |
| 5th July Informs the Austria Germany will support Austria against Serbia, the "blank cheque" |
| 6th July Encourages Austro-Hungarian aggression against Serbia with unconditional support |
| 29th July Advises Vienna to mediate |
| 29th July Proposes a neutrality agreement to Britain guaranteeing France's territory |
| 30th July Declares a "state of imminent war" |
| 30th July Learns of Russia's mobilization |
| 1st Aug Demands that France abandon the Franco-Russian alliance |
| 1st Aug Germany declares war on Russia |
| 2nd Aug Belgium is asked to accept German protection from a non-existent French attack |
| 3rd Aug Germany declares war on France |
| 3rd Aug Berk Makes an address in the Reichstag about the Russian "firebrand" |
| 1938 | Blomberg, Werner von |  |
| 25th Jan Hitler & Goering were witnesses at Blomberg's wedding |
| 25th Jan It is revealed to Hitler that Blomberg had married a whore & he resigns |
| Feb Capri Blomberg goes into exile |
| 4th Feb Discredited by a marriage to a prostitute & forced to resign |
| 4th Feb Used by Hitler for him to take control of the armed forces |
| 1938 | Gruhn, Eva |  |
| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute |
| 1938 | Heldorf, Wolf Heinrich Graf von |  |
| Jan Gathers embarassong evidence about von Blomberg's new wife, Eva Gruhn |
| Jan Presents his dossier on von Blomberg's wife to Goering |
| 1938 | Hitler, Adolf |  |
| Dismsses Blomberg & Fritsch after contrived revelations about their personal lives |
| Jan Dismisses 16 high ranking officers during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis |
| Jan Hitler uses the crisis to appoint himself supreme commander of the armed forces |
| 12th Jan Hitler attends the wedding of von Blomberg to Eva Gruhn, allegedly a former prostitute |
| 4th Feb Blomberg is forced to resign |
| 28th Sep Munich Hitler wants a conference to settle the Czech crisis, Mussolini chooses Munich |
| 1938 | Leeb, Wilhelm Ritter von |  |
| Forced into retirement during the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis |
| 1938 | Rundstedt, Karl Rudolf von |  |
| 1st Nov Retired after Hitler's purge of the high command after the Blomberg-Fritsch crisis |