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Germany and the Next War
(Deutschland und der nächste krieg)
General Friedrich von Bernhardi
Stuttgart und Berlin, J. G. Cotta,
Translated bygd Allen H. Powles
(This etext was retrieved by ftp from , available from Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Bonny Fafard and Distributed Proofreaders. WWI compilation by Richard Seltzer, Format and presentation, copyright GWPDA.)
All the patriotic sections of the German people were greatly excited during the summer and autumn of The conviction lay heavy on all hearts that in the settlement of the Morocco dispute no mere commercial or colonial question of minor importance was being discussed, but that the honour and future of the German nation were at stake. A deep rift had opened between the feeling of the nation and the diplomatic action of the Government. Public opinion, which was clearly in favour of asserting ourselves, did not understand the dangers of our political position, and the sacrifices which a boldly-outlined policy woul
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Bernhardi, F. von () Germany and the Next War
General Friedrich von Bernhardi () Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg. [Germany and the Next War, translated by Allen H. Powless &#; ]
Friedrich Adolf Julius von Bernhardi (November 22, – December 11, ) was a Prussian general and military historian. He was one of the best-selling authors prior to World War I. A militarist, he is perhaps best known for his bellicose book Deutschland und der Nächste Krieg (Germany and the Next War), printed in He advocated a policy of ruthless aggression and complete disregard of treaties and regarded war as a &#;divine business&#;. [Wikipedia]
General Friedrich von Bernhardi’s () writing reflects a widespread belief among the educated, non-socialist mittpunkt classes that Germany deserved more influence and respect, in accordance with its economic power. In describing war as &#;the extension of politics by other means,&#; Bernhardi repeats the dictum of Prussian Major General Carl von Clausewitz ( • Friedrich von Bernhardi Bernhardi was born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire. His family immigrated to Schöpstal, Silesia in During the Franco-Prussian War (), Bernhardi was a cavalry lieutenant in the 14th Hussars of the Prussian Army, and at the end of that conflict had the honor of being the first German to ride through the Arc de Triomphe when the Germans entered to , he was German military attaché at Bern and was subsequently head of the military history department of the Grand General Staff in Berlin. He was appointed general in command of the VII Army Corps at Münster in Westphalia in , but retired two years later and busied himself as a military writer. Widespread attention was excited by the memoirs of his father, the diplomatist and historian Theodor von Bernhardi, which he published, and still more by his book Germany and the Next War. In Germany and the Next War, Bernhardi stated that war "is a biological necessity," and that it was in accordance with "