The German War, No. 1 (50 pfennigs) (Berlin, 1914). Paul Rohrbach, Why This Is a German War.
Chauvinist hysteria against a “decaying world”.... We alone, he maintains, are fighting for our existence, France and Russia are fighting “blinded by national passion” (24), and Britain out of selfishness (“a war of sea pirates”—24)....
...“In fact, our choice, just as that of Austria-Hungary, was not between war and peace, but between war today and war one or two years hence; only in that case it would have become infinitely more dangerous for us” (22)....
...“It can be assumed that the French and Russian army commands planned the attack on Germany and Austria for the beginning or the first half of 1916” (20)....
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