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Jens Holger Schjørring

MAP 1 World in 1914.

© PETER PALM, BERLIN/GERMANY.

At the beginning of the 20th century there had been many regional conflicts in the Balkans with ethnic and religious overtones. Politicians spoke of the trouble spot or powder-keg of Europe. But it had never occurred to anyone that a regional flash-point sparked off in the Bal…