From the Hymn of Hate
We have all but one hate;
We love as one, we hate as one;
We have all but one foe—
England!
In the quarter-deck cabin, the banqueting room,
Ship's officers sat at their friendly feast.
Like a sabre blow, like the swing of a sail,
One jerked his glass aloft for a toast.
Curt and sharp as the catch of an oar,
Three words he uttered: "To the Day!"
On whose score was the glass?
They had all but one hate,
Whom had they in mind?
They had all but one foe—
England!
Bernhardi Blamed for Revealing, in 1911, War Plans of the Kaiser
"As I walked out, General von Bernhardi came into the room, an expert artilleryman, a professor in one of their war colleges. I met him the next morning and he asked me if I had read his book 'Germany in the Next War.' I said I had. He answered, 'Do you know, my friends nearly ran me out of the country for that. They said, "You have let the cat out of the bag." I replied, "No, I have not, because nobody will believe it." 'What do you think of it?' I replied, 'General, I did not believe a word of it when I read it, but I now feel that you did not tell the whole truth;' and the old General looked actually pleased."
That is why England and the United States were not prepared for this war. Their leaders and people supposed that Germany was bluffing and Germany banked upon the fact that nobody would take seriously her extraordinary claims and plans.
Germany's Revised Christmas Hymn
"War On Earth, and Black Hate Towards All Men"
England is our worst enemy, and we will fight her till we have overthrown her! So may it please our Great Ally, who stands behind the German battalions, behind our ships and U-boats, and behind our blessed "militarism"!—E. v. Heyking, D. W. E., p. 23.
The German soul is the world's soul, God and Germany belong to one another.—"On the German God," by Pastor W. Lehmann, quoted in H. A. H., p. 83.
Milk for German Babes