There he had touched the depths of his ordeal when hearing the announcement that the fighting had stopped on 11 November, that Germany had lost the war, that the Kaiser and all German princes had abdicated, and that a German republic had been proclaimed. For shortly before the armistice he had been blinded by gas near Wervik, on the French-Belgian border, and transported far northwards to a military hospital at Pasewalk, in Pommerania. He had not come back marching among the endless grey, weary throngs of soldiers carrying the smell of mud, gun powder and rotten human flesh in the folds of their uniforms. The First World War – the so-called “Great War” – was over, and the future of the corporal, who had no ties with relatives or friends, looked very bleak indeed. As he had nothing else to do, he amused himself by throwing bread crumbs at the mice which were the regular visitors of his small room, and watched them playing with the crumbs or fighting for them. The corporal woke up rather early in the morning, before the start of his daily routine. The Beginning of the World War II (1 September 1939).The Munich Agreement (30 September 1938).A Higher and a Lower Choice: What Went Wrong.“A Little Guy Yelled Himself into a Fit”.“Without Christianity no anti-Semitism”.The Light of Apollo, the Frenzy of Wotan.
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