I am worth two hundred thousand crowns." Hermann breathed with effort.

So many things had beaten upon his brain in the past ten minutes that he was dazed.

His brother Hans alive and here, and rich?
"But riches are not everything." "Sometimes they are little enough," Hans agreed.
"Why did you do it ?" Hermann's voice was full of agony.
"Have I not told you, Hermann?
There is nothing more to be added." Then, with rising passion: "Nothing more, now that my heart is blistered and scarred with regret and remorse.

God knows that I have repented and repented.

I went to war because I wanted to be killed.