“ The Government is clever in constantly telling the people that Germany was attacked and that England wants to shatter the German Empire, and this to a workman means taking away his bread. This fallacy, which people of all classes firmly believe and the fact that the people are powerless under the iron heel and tyranny of militarism, which increases rather than decreases, has kept the people from revolt, besides, the people are so apathetic from lack of nourishment that there will never be a revolution. ”
Quotes from German Hunger Spreads Disease ()
“ People do not realize outside of Germany what this slavery to militarism is and how powerless people are. 'A man only becomes a human being when he becomes an officer,' a German Lieutenant said, and this is the spirit in Germany at present. The German people will, however, carry on the war, because they are powerless to resist the military and because they believe they have been attacked. ”
“ Fear of an economic war is fast gaining ground in Germany and the people are being educated slowly and by degrees to the idea that Germany has not yet won the war in spite of the sacrifices of the big offensive, and that the economic trumps are still in the hands of Great Britain and America. ”
