y will be unseemly when they are found by the husband or father.
Burn, steal, kill--but remember that your Kaiser and the War Staff have
promised to stand between you and God Almighty and the Day of Judgment!
Even if Jesus did say, "Woe unto them that offend against my little
ones," you must remember that your Kaiser and officers have promised you
immunity on the Day of Judgment.

That is what is meant by the sentence on page thirty-one in the German
handbook of "War on Land": "That which is permissible to the German
soldier is anything whatsoever that will help him gain his goal
quickly."

Nothing better illustrates the total collapse of manhood in the Germans
than this soldier's token.

A coward by nature, the German is afraid to kill and steal, and so he
invented a screen behind which he could hide and named it "the soldier's
token."

Going into a French village the Germans collect the women and children,
order them to march in advance, shoot a few to terrorize the rest, and
then, hiding behind this living screen, the Germans march forward. In
this way they protect themselves.

The whole history of the human race contains no chapter of atrocity like
the atrocity of the Germans. The history of the world contains no story
of cowardice so black and damnable as the cowardice of the Germans. Out
of cowardice the soldier's token was born.

And so the Kaiser and the War Staff invented this round piece of
cardboard, with the representation of God as going forth with His sword
to kill men and with His flames to burn them and with the motto: "Strike
them all dead, for the Day of Judgment will ask you no questions."

Therefore among the instruments of cruelty, called the rack, the fagot,
the thumbscrew and the tomahawk, let us give the first place to the
German soldier's token, the most damnable weapon that has come out of
hell during the last two thousand years.

7. Must German Men Be Exterminated?

A singular revulsion of sentiment as to what must be done with the
German army after the war, is now sweeping over the civilized world. Men
who once were pacifists, men of chivalry and kindness, men whose life
has been devoted to philanthropy and reform, scholars and statesmen,
whose very atmosphere is compassion and magnanimity towards the poor and
weak, are now uttering sentiments that four years ago would have been
astounding beyond compare. These men feel that there is no longer any
room in the world for the German