3 July: Waldersee, deputy to the German Chief of the General Staff, expresses his views to a military colleague that Germany could become “involved in a war from one day to another”.
The German military think the situation is very serious. He thinks everything will depend on the attitude of Russia to the Austro-Serbian business.
He gives his colleague the impression that the military favour a war if it were to come about now. Conditions and prospects would never become better for Germany.