"Are you descendants of Goethe or of Attila the Hun?"
— Romain Rolland

January 1, 1970

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1914 open letter to the Germans as a reaction to the torching of the The Academic Library of the Louvain Catholic University in Belgium. Reported in Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August (NY: Macmillan, 1962) p. 321