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With all due respect for our neighbours: What can they possibly expect? After a war which the Germans started and then lost, and which cost fifty million lives, the Germans have learned better than anybody else that war is something to be avoided under any circumstances. The children and the grandchildren of the Nazi generation grew up with this antiwar reflex, and I consider that historical progress. Compared to the bloody fanatics of fifty years ago, the sensitive, tormented German draftee should be a welcome change to the rest of the world.

referring to an military incident in the Persian Gulf, during which German troops had no morale despite great weaponry and technology

—p.184 Three Bad Reasons and Two Good Ones to Fear the Germans (173) by Peter Schneider 9 years, 3 months ago