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Schlieffen|ˈʃliːfən|
The name of Alfred, Graf von Schlieffen (1833–1913), German general, used attrib. of a plan for the invasion and defeat of France that was formulated by him before 1905 and applied, with modifications, in 1914.
1919A. P. F. von Tirpitz My Memoirs II. xvii. 289 The Schlieffen plan of attacking France through Belgium was intended to stave off from Germany the first vital danger. 1926Encycl. Brit. Suppl. III. 479/1 How armies are to be handled in the Schlieffen spirit the war on the Eastern front showed. 1931W. S. Churchill World Crisis VI. vi. 89 He drew up the celebrated ‘Schlieffen Plan’ in which the whole strength of Germany was to be directed from the outset with the utmost rapidity upon France by means of a wheeling movement through Belgium. 1965A. J. P. Taylor Eng. Hist. 1914–45 xiv. 484 He planned to attack on the extreme right, according to the Schlieffen model. 1977Listener 4 Aug. 140/2 In the Schlieffen plan, the railways..took troops to Belgium and northern France. |