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Socialist that you are going to hear. My
companions are silent, so far, but the day will
come when they also will speak out, and with
a far stronger voice than mine. I thank you
for what you have done for me; it is not
much, but I suppose it is all you could do.
I heard you say to him that we wounded
were better off on our side. Maybe it is so
once we are in the ambulances, but before we
are there we are worse off than on your side,
for with us they pick up the officers first and
leave us to the last. Did you hear what he
called us when he told you he would not lie
next to his own men? He could not find the
right word in French in the fury he was in,
but he found it all right in his own language.
He called us Schweine, swine—that is how a
Prussian officer speaks to his men! We obey
them, cowards as we are, because we fear
them; but we hate them as much as we fear
them. Yes, he called us swine, and he was
quite right, and we ought to be grateful that
he did not call us worse names. He might
have called us thieves and murderers, and he
would still have been right. Two months ago
I was an honest man; I had not willingly
offended either the laws of God or man, and
I could look my wife straight in the eyes
without fear or shame. Now I am a thief,
a murderer, and a villain. I know I am
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