Lebow emphasizes this and I tend to agree.
Without Hitler, no Holocaust. This may be an extreme example, but WWI is an another suitable case.
Because most of the foreign policy decisions were made by a very small cohorts of decision makers, virtually all of'em aristocrats.
They all fucked up, to put it mildly.
If you contrast them to Bismarck...you know what I mean. Bismarks was also from a Junker family yet he had an uncanny understanding of the trend and macro-relationships; hence he was a master of domestic and diplomatic relations. For example he forstalled the Socialists by introducing various social insurance policies lol. He was THAT astute.
If that stupid Princip failed the attempt, and instead some other guy killed say Moltke, would WWI happened? Bear in mind, the pressure for PEACE was very much alive at that point, too.
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