This bourgeoisie was really suffering from mental senility; in all
seriousness they harbored the opinion that the army would again
become what it had been, to wit, a stronghold of German military
power; while the Center and Marxism planned only to tear out its
dangerous national poison fang, without which, however, an
army remains forever a police force, but is not a troop capable of
fighting an enemyas has been amply proved in the time that
followed.
Or did our 'national politicians' believe that the development of
the army could have been other than national? That would have
been confoundedly like the gentlemen and is what comes of not
being a soldier in war but a bigmouth;
in other words, a
parliamentarian with no notion of what goes on in the hearts of
men who are reminded by the most colossal past that they were
once the best soldiers in the world.
And so I decided to attend the abovementioned meeting of this
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