"....It'll Be Some Damn Fool Thing in the Balkans"

February 29th, 2024

Otto Von Bismarck told Kaiser Wilhelm II that the Great War would be sparked by a fluke event in the those recently independent countries and that the death of the German Empire would come twenty years after his death “if things carried on in their present state.” He died in July 1898.

While the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sof…