"We Hohenzollerns take our crown from God alone. On me the Spirit of God has descended4. I regard my whole ... task as appointed by heaven. Who opposes me I shall crush to pieces. Nothing must be settled in this world without the intervention5 ... of ... the German Emperor. He who listens to public opinion runs a danger of inflicting6 immense harm on ... the State. When one occupies certain positions in the world one ought to make dupes rather than friends. Christian7 morality cannot be political. Treaties are only a disguise to conceal8 other political aims. Remember that the German people are the chosen of God.
"Might is right and ... is decided9 by war. Every youth who enters a beer-drinking and dueling10 club will receive the true direction of his life. War in itself is a good thing. God will see to it that war always recurs11. The efforts directed toward the abolition12 of war must not only be termed foolish, but absolutely immoral13. The peace of Europe is only a secondary matter for us. The sight of suffering does one good; the infliction14 of suffering does one more good. This war must be conducted as ruthlessly as possible.
"The Belgians should not be shot dead. They should be ... so left as to make impossible all hope of recovery. The troops are to treat the Belgian civil population with unrelenting severity and frightfulness15. Weak nations have not the same right to live as powerful ... nations. The world has no longer need of little nationalities. We Germans have little esteem16 and less respect ... for Holland. We need to enlarge our colonial possessions; such territorial17 acquisitions we can only realize at the cost of other states.
"Russia must no longer be our frontier. The Polish press should be annihilated18 ... likewise the French and Danish.... The Poles should be allowed ... three privileges: to pay taxes, serve in the army, and shut their jaws19. France must be so completely crushed that she will never again cross our path. You must remember that we have not come to make war on the French people, but to bring them the higher Civilization. The French have shown themselves decadent20 and without respect for the Divine law. Against England we fight for booty. Our real enemy is England. We have to ... crush absolutely perfidious21 Albion ... subdue22 her to such an extent that her influence all over the world is broken forever.
"German should replace English as the world language. English, the bastard23 tongue ... must be swept into the remotest corners ... until it has returned to its original elements of an insignificant24 pirate dialect. The German language acts as a blessing25 which, coming direct from the hand of God, sinks into the heart like a precious balm. To us, more than any other nation, is intrusted the true structure of human existence. Our own country, by employing military power, has attained26 a degree of Culture which it could never have reached by peaceful means.
"The civilization of mankind suffers every time a German becomes an American. Let us drop our miserable27 attempts to excuse Germany's action. We willed it. Our might shall create a new law in Europe. It is Germany that strikes. We are morally and intellectually superior beyond all comparison.... We must ... fight with Russian beasts, English mercenaries and Belgian fanatics28. We have nothing to apologize for. It is no consequence whatever if all the monuments ever created, all the pictures ever painted, all the buildings ever erected29 by the great architects of the world, be destroyed.... The ugliest stone placed to mark the burial of a German grenadier is a more glorious monument than all the cathedrals of Europe put together. No respect for the tombs of Shakespeare, Newton and Faraday.
"They call us barbarians30. What of it? The German claim must be: ... Education to hate.... Organization of hatred31.... Education to the desire for hatred. Let us abolish unripe32 and false shame.... To us is given faith, hope and hatred; but hatred is the greatest among them."
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