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drunk their wine and sung their songs. I
know now that you are right, that they are
not the same as we. I have done with the
Germany of to-day, but not with the Germany
of the past, nor, I hope, with the Germany
of the future which will rise one day purified
and softened from its Götterdämmerung.
“The country I was born in says it can
maintain its peace without the loss of its
honour, and be it so. But I am at war; for
the individual there is no neutrality between
right and wrong. Yes, I know now what
they are. I have read it in letters of flame
and blood in the proclamations of their
Generals on the blackened walls of your
peaceful villages. I have heard it cried out
in prayers and curses from the lips of their
victims. I have seen it in the burnt faces
of a little row of angels’ heads amongst the
debris of the high-altar of the Cathedral of
Rheims.
“You call them Huns and barbarians, I
call them cool-headed, scientific criminals,
guilty of horrors which have not as yet got
a name in our language.
“Listen to what I saw not many days ago
in a house they had just hurriedly left.
Let me tell it you as I saw it, as I felt it,
with its small details and its great horror.
Maybe you will say I am sentimental, and
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