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The Land of Deepening Shadow

The Land of Deepening Shadow

Curtin, D. Thomas

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ISBN10: 115370823X
ISBN13: 9781153708234
Publisher: General Books
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.35 Width: 9.01 Depth: 5.98
Language: English
Excerpt: ...and to the extent of one biting phrase: -Such treatment, I can hear him shrieking, is unverschaemt (shameless) and unerhoert (unheard of)! It could take place in no other legislative body in the world! With that the one German Social Democrat of conviction, courage, and consistency retires, baffled and discomfited. Potsdam's representative in the Reichstag is at last effectually muzzled, but in the muzzling I have seen the German Government at work on a task almost as prodigious as the one it now faces on the Somme-the task of keeping the German people deaf, dumb, and blind. Of what has meantime happened to Liebknecht the main facts are known. He was arrested on May 1 for alleged incitement to public disorder during a state of war, tried, convicted, and sentenced to penal servitude. A couple of months previously (on March 13) he had delivered another bitter attack on the War Government in the Prussian Diet. He accused the German educational authorities of systematically teaching hate to school children and of distorting even contemporary history so as to poison their minds to the glorification of Prussian militarism. He said it was not the business of the schools to turn children into machines for the Moloch of militarism. Let us teach history correctly, declared Liebknecht, and tell the children that the crime of Sarajevo was looked upon by wide circles in Austria-Hungary and Germany as a gift from Heaven. Let us. . . . He got no farther, for the cyclone broke. He had dared to do what no other man in Germany had done. He had publicly accused his Government of making the war. From that moment his doom was certain. This narrative should be instructive to those Britishers and Americans who think it possible that German Socialists may one day have the power to end the war. There are two effective replies to this curious Anglo-Saxon misunderstanding of Germany. The first is that Liebknecht had not, and has not, the support of his own party;...

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