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Germany responded through diplomat Mon Mun von Sossenstein, framing their involvement as a defensive measure against a coalition aiming to dismantle the German Reich. The Germans argued that their enemies had falsely boasted of conquering Germany, even imagining parades through Berlin by Cossacks and soldiers from India and the Corps of Korchaks—visions of German defeat that, in reality, had not come to pass.