{"corpus":"steiner","locus":"GA 65/1916-04-13/p058","lang":"en","edition":"English","edition_basis":null,"is_original":false,"is_default_edition":true,"text":"There was felt what must not be expressed later. Well, of course, many things must not be expressed in our country either, that goes without saying. And from this side, the gentlemen whose names have been read out cannot be particularly reproached. But perhaps it is less important what may or may not be expressed and more important what is expressed when certain others cannot speak. And here I would like to say: I cannot believe that a weekly paper within the German national territory could be found that would write similar words about another nation in these difficult times, would have them printed, as was written on July 10, 1915 in an English weekly paper, in “John Bull,” one of the most widely read weekly papers in England, - written where others must remain silent. Don't say: John Bull is just a scurrilous paper! I say: I cannot believe that it is possible that in the most, most scurrilous paper, a similar way could be written about another nation, as it is written to characterize the German character. I will read just a few sentences: “The German is the stain of Europe, and the task of the present war is to wipe him off the face of the earth.... As he was in the beginning, so he is now and so he will remain forever – bad, brutal, bloodthirsty, cruel, mean and calculating. He is a voluptuary, is sleazy, shifty, thick-skinned. He slurs his speech in guttural sounds. He is a drunkard, miser, rapacious and fawning. That is the beast we must fight... He lives in apartments that, in terms of hygiene, are on par with a pigsty.” And now the weekly paper rises to a kind of, I would say, prayer from this mood: “Look at history wherever and however you want, you will always find the German as a beast!... God will never give you, English people, this opportunity again. Your mission is to rid Europe of this unclean animal, this beast. As long as this beast is not destroyed, the progress of humanity will be delayed. England is slowly but surely approaching the final milestone of her destiny, and when we have passed it, and the hour comes when we want to enter the gate of heaven, the Huns must not be the reason that we are sent back. But the gates of heaven would be slammed in our faces, because the heavenly realms are only for those who have destroyed the devil. The Germans are the plague-boils of human society. And these times of war are the X-rays that reveal their true character. This plague-boil must be cut out, and the British bayonet is the instrument for this operation, which must be performed on the beast when our poisonous gases have chloroformed it.","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"title":"14. The Development of the German Soul","site_heading":null,"date":"1916-04-13","location":null,"word_count":468,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/en/ga/65/1916-04-13/p058","alignment_confidence":"high","alignment_reason":"beads:identity","two_voice_volume":false,"translation_credit":{"scope":"unit","status":"established","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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Und da möchte ich sagen: Ich glaube es nicht, daß ein Wochenblatt innerhalb des deutschen Volksgebietes sich finden lassen könnte, welches ähnliche Worte über eine andere Nation in dieser jetzigen schweren Zeit schreiben würde, drucken lassen würde, wie am 10. Juli 1915 in einem englischen Wochenblatte, im «John Bull», einem der verbreitetsten Wochenblätter in England, geschrieben wurde, — geschrieben wurde da, wo die anderen schweigen müssen. Sagen Sie nicht: Der « John Bull» ist eben ein Schmähblatt! Ich sage: Ich kann nicht glauben, daß es möglich ist, daß in dem aller-, allerschmählichsten Blatt in einer ähnlichen Weise über eine andere Nation geschrieben werden könnte, als da steht, um deutsches Wesen zu charakterisieren. Ich lese nur einige Sätze vor: «Der Deutsche ist der Schandfleck Europas, und die Aufgabe des gegenwärtigen Krieges ist es, ihn von der Erde wegzuwischen.... So wie er im Anfang war, so ist er jetzt und wird er ewig bleiben — schlecht, brutal, blutrünstig, grausam, gemein und berechnend. Er ist ein Lüstling, ist schmierig, windig, dickhäutig. Er lallt seine Sprache in Gutturallauten. Er säuft, ist geizig, raubgierig und niedrigkriechend. Das ist die Bestie, die wir bekämpfen müssen ... Er wohnt in Wohnungen, die gesundheitlich auf der Höhe eines Schweinestalles stehen.» Und nun erhebt sich das Wochenblatt zu einer Art von, ich möchte sagen, Gebet aus dieser Stimmung heraus: «Man betrachte die Geschichte, wo und wie man will, man findet den Deutschen stets als Bestie!... Nie wird Gott dir, englisches Volk, diese Gelegenheit wieder geben. Deine Mission ist es, Europa von diesem unreinen Tier, dieser Bestie, zu befreien. Solange diese Bestie nicht vertilgt ist, wird der Fortschritt der Menschheit verzögert. England nähert sich langsam, aber sicher dem letzten Meilenstein seines Geschickes, und wenn wir den passiert haben, und es kommt dereinst die Stunde, wo wir ins Tor des Himmels wollen, dürfen die Hunnen nicht der Grund sein, daß wir zurückgeschickt werden. Die Himmelstore würden uns aber vor der Nase zugeschlagen, denn die himmlischen Gefilde sind nur für die vorhanden, die den Teufel vertilgt haben. Die Deutschen sind die Pestbeulen der menschlichen Gesellschaft. Und diese Kriegszeiten sind die X-Strahlen, die ihren wahren Charakter durchleuchten. Diese Pestbeule muß herausgeschnitten werden, und das britische Bajonett ist das Instrument für diese Operation, die an der Bestie vorgenommen werden muß, wenn unsere giftigen Gase sie chloroformiert haben.»","text_trust":"verbatim","quote_safe":true,"word_count":451,"url":"https://anthroposophy.ai/v1/steiner/de/ga/65/1916-04-13/p058"}],"english":["GA 65/1916-04-13/p058"],"method":"identity","confidence":"high","correspondence":"established","length_check":{"de_words":451,"en_words":468,"ratio":1.04,"partial":false},"pairing_state":"verified","verified":true,"evidence":["length","meaning","anchors","audit"]},"witness_completeness":{"ratio":1.06,"band":"comparable","note":null,"word_count":12620,"original_word_count":11914,"may_be_abridged":false},"witness_quality":{"translator":{"scope":"unit","status":"recorded","translator":"Steiner Online Library","identified_edition":"SOL2024","book_title":"From Central European Intellectual Life","publisher":"Steiner Online Library","publisher_inferred":true,"match_score":1.0,"source_url":"https://www.rsarchive.org/Lectures/GA065/English/SOL2024/19160413p01.html","evidence":"lecture_page_line","publisher_note":"The publisher is inferred from the edition code in this lecture's source URL, not stated by the source page. 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