The Battle of Jutland

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Excerpt from The Battle of Jutland: 31 May 1 June 1916 Severe hardships is in store for the German nation. Our youth will grow up in a subjugated Germany in which foreign officials will compel them to do statute labor for them. We shall be made to feel the contempt with which the Anglo-Saxon regards us. Even the French and Italians, and other nations, who are mentally, physically and morally inferior to us, will regard us as crude and justly punished barbarians. I am firmly convinced that our German youth will not be disconcerted thereby. Strong-hearted Germans, young and old, must and will devote their efforts to prevent our people from allowing their national characteristics to perish in a weak, un-German, bondsman's view of life and the world. It is the duty of we older men to aid the German youth in this struggle both by precept and example. We must keep alive the memory of all that has made the German people strong and proud, the deeds and times in which the German people have proved themselves to be of true nobility. Two walks of life have been familiar to me during the 22 years in which I have been permitted to serve the Fatherland as a naval officer, that of the German officer and that of the sailor. When today I look back upon the past, revolution and defeat having almost utterly wiped out these two phases of our culture, I do so with a feeling of gratitude toward the profession, in which I lived and worked with German men and youths who were true Germans at heart and who in war and in peace devoted their efforts and their lives to the greatness of Germany. And I am thankful to my profession for bringing me into association with almost all the nations of the earth under conditions which always gave me reason to be proud that I was a German and a sailor. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.