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A great many Austrians, including General Conrad, Graf von Hoetzendorf ( chief of the Austro-Hungarian General Staff) and Leopold, Graf von Berchtold (Austo-Hungarian Foreign Minister), were convinced that the South Slav and Pan Slav movements, sponsored by both Serbia and Russia, were eating away at the Slav components of the Empire. Bosnia/Herzogovina was not such an integral part of the Empire, but Bohemia and Croatia were becomming hotbeds of unrest. The so-called "war counts" kept up a steady drumbeat that Serbia had to be punished by a military defeat to quiet the growing calls for Southern Slav unity. At the same time, the German General staff was convinced that war with France and Russia was coming. They

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