Ebook: "Germany above al": The German Mental Attitude and the War

The conduct of Germany during the war springs from a certain mental attitude.— The principal object of the analytic studies, which form our series is to depict Germany as the war has revealed her to us. We have spoken already of her aggresive temper, her bellicose disposition, her contempt of international laws, of her systematic savagery, and her deliberate cruelties. But these various demonstrations of the German spirit, however distinct each of their characteristics may be, are all subservient to one and the same basic condition, which establishes their unity. They are only varying expressions of one and the same condition of mentality, which, in the present work, we would wish to examine, in order to comprehend, and to determine, its essential elements.