Excerpt from The German Army From Within
When, during the Boxer Campaign in China, the Kaiser sent to his troops at the front the message which has lately put a girdle round about the globe - "Make for yourselves reputations like the Huns of Attila!" - he was not merely sending them a watchword for that campaign : he was expressing the spirit that animates to-day the Army of Germany. Put into other words, it is: "Win! Honestly, if you can, but ... Win!"
For the German Army has been builded with one aim: a world-war. In that war they must be victorious, or... "Our next war," said the cynical Bernhardi, writing in 1911, "will be fought for the highest interests of our country and of mankind. World-power or Downfall! must be our rallying-cry."
Some years ago, in a book published under my own name, I pointed out the direction that that war must take. Teuton and Slav have for some time past been pressing slowly southward, as rivals, each keenly conscious of the other"s aims.
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