By Frederick the Great of Prussia
(1712-1786)
If my soldiers were to begin to reflect, not one of them would remain in the ranks.
Our Father Which Art in Heaven
(From “The Human Slaughter-House”)
By Wilhelm Lamszus
(A novel by a Hamburg school-teacher, published in 1913. Although banned by the authorities in some places, over 100,000 copies were sold in Germany in a few weeks)
We rejoined the Colors on Friday. On Monday we are to move out. Today, being Sunday, is full-dress Church Parade.
I slept badly last night, and am feeling uneasy and limp.
And now we are sitting close-packed in church.