Schlieffen Plan Schlieffen Plan The Schlieffen Plan (, ) was the name given, after the First World War, to German war plans and the influence of Field Marshal Alfred von Schlieffen and his thinking on the invasion of France and Belgium on 4 August 1914. Schlieffen was Chief of the General Staff of the German Army from 1891 to 1906. In 1905 and 1906, Schlieffen devised an army deployment plan for a war-winning offensive against the French Third Republic. After losing the First World War, German official historians of the and other writers described the plan as a blueprint for victory. (Colonel-General)
Forced labor of Germans in the Soviet Union 10,000; Hungary 30,000; Romania 80,000; Yugoslavia 40,000.) Total Dead 224,000 (Germany (1937 borders)160,000; Danzig 5,000, Czechoslovakia 3,000; Baltic States 6,000; Hungary 10,000; Romania 30,000; Yugoslavia 10,000.) These categories of deportees in Reichling's report are not listed above in the Russian archive statistics. B. "Forced Repatriation" and "Resettlers" – Soviet ethnic Germans returned to the USSR after World War II. Total deported 310,000 (USSR 280,000; Baltic States 9,000; Poland 12,000; Romania 9,000) Total Dead 110,000 (USSR 100,000; Baltic States 3,000; Poland 4,000; Romania 3,000) C. Soviet Germans Deported in USSR 1941-1942 – Total deported 700,000 of whom 210,000 died D. German