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 whom c. 5,000 died. C. The German Federal Archives study did not provide figures for Romania and Hungary. These civilian deaths in the Federal Archive Report are not listed above in the Russian archive statistics. D. Labor camps in northern East Prussia Kaliningrad Oblast- 110,000 held by USSR in northern East Prussia. Overall they estimated 40,000 persons perished. . E. Held in post war Polish internment camps- The German Federal Archives estimated 60,000 deaths of the 200,000 Germans in post war Polish internment camps. The report mentioned that ethnic German citizens from pre-war Poland were considered "traitors of the nation"