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in his attitude to foreign nations, because the Prussian spirit
in Germany is all these things. The Prussian loves to ride
roughshod over others and thinks he has a right to do so.
It suits them all now to blame the Emperor for these things
and to call it Hohenzollernism. Hohenzollernism is only
Prussianism in the open. They say its spirit has (with the
Emperor) completely disappeared. It may be so, but I for
one think that sudden national conversions are as rare and
unsatisfactory as sudden individual conversions.

DAISY PRINCESS OF PLESS, 1928

The Swedish Chancellor Oxenstierna, who asked the saga-
cious question : "An nescis, rni fili, quantilla prudentia rega-
tur orbis?" "But do you not know, my son, with how little
intelligence the world is governed?" — seems to have found
even this modest quantum lacking in the German constitu-
tion, for he described it as a mere confusion maintained by
Providence : and two hundred years later Hegel spoke even
more plainly, calling it a "constituted anarchy."

EGON FRIEDliLL, 1928

The Wilhelmine monarchy did not perish because as an
ideal it was old and obsolete. . . . The monarchy fell when
there was no one left to fight for it, and if need be, to die
for it. Wilhelm II did not lose his throne because in the
twentieth century this throne was merely an anachronism : it
was no more of an anachronism than the Weimar Republic,
and perhaps less. He lost everything because he was no longer
willing to risk everything for it. The crown of the German
empire rolled in the dust because its latest wearer no longer
had the resolution to defend the crown in accordance with
the law by which his ancestors conquered it.

DR. JOSEPH GOEBBELS, Der Angriff, 19 August, 1929

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