We Germans expected American sympathy. There is so much German blood in the United States." "But, as I told Captain von Boehlen, we're a republic, and we're democrats.
In many of the big ideas there's a gulf between us and Germany so wide that it can never be bridged.
This war has made clear the enormous difference." Von Arnheim sighed. "And yet, as a people, we like each other personally," he said. "That's so, but as nations we diverge absolutely." "Perhaps, I can't dispute it.
But here is our camp.
You'll be treated well.