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How and why did the fighting on the Western front develop into stalemate and how was it eventually broken?
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How and why did the fighting on the Western front develop into stalemate and how was it eventually broken? The idea of trenches first started in the battle of the Marne in September 1914. The Schlieffen plan had just failed and the Germans were forced to retreat back to Germany. The German commander, General Erich Von Falkenhayn, was unhappy with this and decided that his troops should keep the parts in Belgium and France that they had gained at all costs. He had decided that there was no way to win a war against Britain, France and Russia and so he adopted the policy of attrition, in order to wear down the Western powers. He ordered the Germans to build trenches to provide them protection from the advancing French and British troops. He had planned to merely defend and hold up the Western powers on the western front while attacking...
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