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The German experience of World War I was therefore quite different from that of the French and the British and the “lessons” they drew from it were consequently also different. They were not as wedded to the idea of stalemate or the irrelevance of the offensive and operational maneuver and chose to view the Stellungskrieg of the trenches as an aberration that could be overcome. In the German view, ''Bewegungskrieg'' had not been rendered obsolete or untenable—it just had to be adapted to the new circumstances.

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