"Any wrong that the war demands, however great it may be, is
allowed."

Therefore the horrors which the Germans performed from the war's very
beginning, which provoked an expression of great indignation from all
the civilized world, were not perpetrated in a moment of orgy or
madness. They have been perpetrated coldly, deliberately,
intentionally.

Besides, not only the officers and the common soldiers have been
taught to make war in this barbarous fashion. It has been taught to
the entire German people. This precept proves the case. It emanates
not from a soldier but from a poet, who is not addressing the military
class but the civilians, the women, the children, and all Germany. It
is the "Hymn of Hate" by the poet Heinrich Vierordt, which, before the
war, was recited in even the German kindergartens:

Hate, Germany! Slit the throats of your millions of enemies.
Raise a monument of their smoking corpses that will rise to
the heavens!

Germany, arm yourself with brazen armor and pierce with your
bayonet the heart of every enemy. Take no prisoners! Strike
them dumb. Transform into deserts the lands that lie near
you!

Hate, Germany! Victory will come from your anger. Shatter
their skulls with blows from your ax and the butt of your
musket. These brigands are timid beasts.... They are not
men.... May your fist perform the judgment of God!