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Aber die Grundlage war noch nicht oekonomischer, sondern sozialer Natur
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Aber die Grundlage war noch nicht oekonomischer, sondern sozialer Natur "Aber die Grundlage der ersten grossen Ruestungswelle der achtziger und Anfang der neunziger Jahre war noch nicht oekonomischer, sondern sozialer Natur" Kehr believed that as the middle classes of the 1880s felt the pressure of the Socialist threat, it allied itself with the monarchy and aristocracy in a mutually beneficial alliance built on the common ground of property ownership. This feudal middle class's domestic concern and support for the Crown began to show itself in the form of the growth of the Reserve Officers' Corps. The 1888 army law's increase of the maximum age of national service to 45 and the 23% growth in the standing army was a reaction not to an economic circumstance, but the need to ward off the socialist menace. Increasing the recruiting quota to 30% and service time to two years risked diluting the army with...
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