Achmed Abdullah

“ The world that preaches the ungodly, accursed sermon of freedom for the people and by the people! The angels—the angels of vengeance—the German angels descend and smite Europe and drown a third part of all her people in blood! They stifle and trample and kill with glowing feet the enemies of Him, our God, our old German God, which is, and which was, and which is to come! ”

“ The sun is overcast with sable blackness! The stars fall from the firmament upon the earth! Upon the earth blazing in a most frightful conflagration! The sea is blood! The fish and all the creatures of the oceans choke with blood! The world, for its own salvation, must be absterged by a lotion of blood—and it is our duty, our shining privilege, our German privilege to obey the voice of our God, the German God! It is our right to smite the ivory towers of Babylon, to ..."
"What the devil is he talking about?" Tom asked in an undertone. ”

“ Christmas came with snow thudding softly, with jingling sleigh bells, with motley gifts packing the shop windows, with glittering trees.
Came the New Year—Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen—and the Uhlans of the Guard celebrated it with a Liebesmahl, worthy of Lucullus, to which not only the officers of the other crack cavalry regiment came, but even the Emperor himself, Prince Ludwig Karl, and the Crown Prince. ”