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The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 1081 1555 Arthur J. May, Woodrow Wilson and Austria-Hungary to the End of 1917, in : Festschrift für Hein- rich Benedikt, op. cit., 228. 1556 Meckling, Czernin, 45. 1557 Ibid., 46. 1558 Wilhelm Deist, Militär und Innenpolitik im Weltkrieg 1914–1917, 785. 1559 Meckling, Czernin, 51. 1560 Redlich, Schicksalsjahre, Vol. 2, 252 et seq., 29.12.1916. A statement on the subject was made by A. F. Přibram. 1561 Ibid., 254, 3.1.1917. 1562 Conrad to Gina von Reininghaus, 14.9.1913, quoted from Sondhaus, Conrad von Hötzendorf : Archi- tect of the Apocalypse (Leiden, 2000). 1563 Hoyer, Kaiser Karl, 82. 1564 Zeynek, Ein Offizier im Generalstabskorps, 267. 1565 KA, Marterer Tagebuch, No. 5, 9.2.1917. 1566 Reinhold Lorenz, Aus dem Kriegstagebuch des Generaladjutanten Freiherrn von Marterer, in : Öster- reich und Europa. Festgabe für Hugo Hantsch (Graz/Vienna/Cologne, 1965), 491. 1567 Zeynek, Ein Offizier im Generalstabskorps, 277. 1568 Lorenz, Kriegstagebuch Marterer, 493. 1569 KA, Marterer Tagebuch, No. 5, 22.2.1917. 1570 See : KA, Schneller Tagebuch, beginning of January to 25.2.1917 (=  1060 to 1112). From Scheller’s elaborations and the amendments made by the Chief of the Operations Division, General Metzger, as well as Conrad’s comments on the sketch for the operations, it is evident that an attack was planned in two directions, in which the focus was again to be on South Tyrol. If this study is transferred to the Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo in 1917 and the Piave Offensive in 1918, key elements were already anticipated for both operations. 1571 Zeynek, Ein Offizier im Generalstabskorps, 278 et seq. 1572 KA, op. geh. No. 234. Hindenburg justified his decision by referring to the lack of ammunition, and pointed out that the Central Powers would in general act defensively. The latter was still linked to the peace offer by the Central Powers, although opinions in the German Supreme Army Command were anyway divided with regard to an engagement in Italy. The former was a thinly disguised excuse, since at precisely that point in time, more ammunition was being produced in Germany than could be fired. 22. The Consequences of the Russian February Revolution 1573 André Beaufre, Die Strategie des Jahres 1917, in : Österreichische Militärische Zeitschrift, special issue on 1917 (1967), 68. 1574 Ibid., 70. 1575 Valiani, The End, 143. 1576 Ibid., 159. 1577 Ibid., 163. 1578 This clearly reflected the ever less restrictive stance of the War Surveillance Office. 1579 Valiani, The End, 174. 1580 Summary in : Hans Meier-Welcker, Die militärischen Planungen und ihre Ergebnisse 1917/18, in : Weltwende 1917. Monarchie  – Weltrevolution  – Demokratie, edited by Hellmuth Rößler (Göttingen, 1965).