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The Sleepwalkers

8 min read 11 min listen Narrated by Sophie
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What’s it about?

A master historian dismantles the myth of German guilt for WWI, revealing how Europe's leaders sleepwalked into catastrophe through fear, pride, and fatal miscalculation.

You’ll learn

  • WWI was a tragedy, not a crime
  • Austria-Hungary's fear of Serbia
  • Germany's fatal 'blank cheque'
  • Mobilization as a political act