Serbia Quotes
The report was from Heinrich von Tschirschky, the German ambassador to Austria-Hungary. He recommended that Germany persuade Austria-Hungary to not attack Serbia, not realizing the German leaders had already planned a war with Russia and saw the issues between the Austro-Hungarian Empire and Serbia was a good excuse to implement their war plans (see {642092}).
This was part of the continual conflict between the Muslims and the Eastern Orthodox Christians. The Greeks ended up doubling their territory.
Tito did a marvelous job of keeping the lid on the ethnic hatred that was always present. Where he failed however was that as soon as Tito died, the ethnic groups were literally at each others’ throats.
Milosevic had been rejected at the polls, but the question was whether of not he would give up power. He finally did.
At the time Turkey and the Ottoman Empire included Egypt and most of the Middle East, Chechnya, Georgia, Armenia, Usbekistan, Ajerbaijon, Greece, Albania, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia and other countries.
At its largest, the Ottoman Turkish Empire included all of the Middle East, most of North Africa, much of Russia, and Europe right up to the walls of Vienna.
The Germans wanted war with Serbia and used the dispute between Austria and Serbia as an excuse to mobilize and go to war ostensibly to protect their ally, the Austrian Empire, from the Serbs who they knew would be likely supported by Russia which had traditionally supported their fellow Eastern Orthodox against Roman Catholic or Protestant enemies. Russia still tends to protect and support the Serbs. This statement was one of the many that showed that Germany was the major aggressor in the First World War and therefore had to pay reparations to France and others.
Referring to the Serbian atrocities in Bosnia:
In 1915 the Balkans was contorted by War and political intrigue. Serbia in particular was totally unrealistic about making any concessions to Bulgaria. Grey and his associates tried to explain the realities to the Serbian Ambassador who, before the British could articulate the whole situation, told them that he and the rest of the Serbian leadership would rather die than give up any territory. Grey later observed :
Sarajevo had been one of the most ethnically integrated cities in the Balkans where Serbs, Croats, and Muslims had been at war with each other throughout the former Yugoslavia.
Artukovic was later convicted as a war criminal.
Baker was out of office, and the Clinton Administration successfully intervened.
