"Germans felt similar emotions. The war was to be, wrote Thomas Mann, “a purification, a liberation, an enormous hope.…"

"Where Brooke was embracing cleanness and nobleness, Mann saw a more positive goal. Germans being, he said, the most e…"

"No longer the prewar mischief maker and saber rattler, he was now depicted as a dark, satanic tyrant, breathing cruel…"

"“Major von Kleist gave orders that a man or, if no man was available, a woman, be taken from every household as a hos…"

"The Germans were obsessively concerned about violations of international law. They succeeded in overlooking the viola…"

"The German obsession had two parts: that Belgian resistance was illegal and that it was organized from “above” by the…"

"An officer in charge in one street watched gloomily, smoking a cigar. He was rabid against the Belgians, and kept rep…"

"Why did the Germans do it? people asked all over the world. “Are you descendants of Goethe or of Attila the Hun?”"

"King Albert in conversation with the French Minister thought the mainspring was the German sense of inferiority and j…"

"When the Battle of the Frontiers ended, the war had been in progress for twenty days and during that time had created…"