Then came war, and the air was cleared.

Germany, in spite of her blunders and her grossness, stood forth as the scourge of cant.
She had the courage to cut through the bonds of humbug and to laugh at the fetishes of the herd.

Therefore I am on Germany's side.

But I came here for another reason.

I know nothing of the East, but as I read history it is from the desert that the purification comes.