... while demonstrating how Konrad Jarausch's article serves as a mediator between the two. In Fritz Fischer's Germany's Aims in the First World War it is evident that the blame is being laid almost entirely onto Germany. Not only however is Fischer laying the blame onto Germany, he is also through his writings making it clear that the outbreak of war was the responsibility of German civilian leadership, emphasizing the role of Bethmann Hollwegg, the Chancellor of Germany. Fischer's first area of focus is the "Blank Cheque" that Germany wrote to Austria. According to Fischer, the cheque was not so blank after all, but rather had certain implications attached to it. Fischer critically points out that Germany guaranteed to Austria 'its full support, even in the case of grave European complications' 1. Such a statement in the context of the July Crisis, according to Fritz Fischer could under no circumstances be ...

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