The army is taught to forget that it is the armed population of the country, and is trained to be a band of body servants.

And even when the soldiers return to private life, the idea of servitude is carefully kept up, and he finds again in the military 'Verein' the beloved barrack life, with all its servile submissiveness and abnegation of free will.

Whichever way I look, I am filled with horror.

Everything is ground down, everything laid waste, the governing spirit has not left one stone standing upon another.

Even our youth, with whom lies our hope for the future, is rotten in part.