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No; they had the Power, and Power creates new laws.
If they proved to be the victors, History would not investigate too closely the means by which they had conquered.

It was Germany that was going to win, and the priests of all cults would finally sanctify with their chants the blessed war--if it led to triumph.
"We are not making war in order to punish the Servian regicides, nor to free the Poles, nor the others oppressed by Russia, stopping there in admiration of our disinterested magnanimity.

We wish to wage it because we are the first people of the earth and should extend our activity over the entire planet.

Germany's hour has sounded.