nger be our frontier. The Polish press should be
annihilated ... likewise the French and Danish.... The Poles should be
allowed ... three privileges: to pay taxes, serve in the army, and shut
their jaws. 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 decadent and without respect for the Divine
law. Against England we fight for booty. Our real enemy is England. We
have to ... crush absolutely perfidious Albion ... subdue 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
bastard tongue ... must be swept into the remotest corners ... until it
has returned to its original elements of an insignificant pirate
dialect. The German language acts as a blessing 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 attained 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 miserable 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 fanatics. 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 erected 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 barbarians. What of it? The German claim must be: ...
Education to hate ... Organization of hatred ... Education to the desire
for hatred. Let us abolish unripe and false shame.... To us is given
faith, hope, and hatred; but hatred is the greatest among them."

The German war code, introduction, paragraph three, reads as follows: "A
war conducted with energy cannot be directed merely against the
comb