Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke , también conocido como Moltke el Joven para diferenciarlo de su tío Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke , fue un militar alemán que sirvió como jefe del Estado Mayor entre 1906 y 1914.
Su papel en el desarrollo de los planes de guerra alemanes y la instigación de la Primera Guerra Mundial son muy controvertidos.
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“It is dreadful to be condemned to inactivity in this war which I prepared and initiated.”
Letter to Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (14 June 1915), quoted in John C. G. Röhl, 'Germany', in Keith Wilson (ed.), Decisions for War 1914 (London: University College London Press, 1995), p. 27
Memorandum (5 August 1914), quoted in Fritz Fischer, Germany's Aims in the First World War (New York: W. W. Norton & Co, 1967), p. 126
Letter to his wife during the Agadir Crisis (1911), quoted in L. C. F. Turner, 'The Significance of the Schlieffen Plan', in Paul Kennedy (ed.), The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985), p. 211
Remark to the Austrian Chief of Staff Conrad von Hotzndorf (21 January 1909) during the Bosnian crisis, quoted in L. C. F. Turner, 'The Significance of the Schlieffen Plan', in Paul Kennedy (ed.), The War Plans of the Great Powers, 1880-1914 (Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1985), p. 214
