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“Again an open view of the French mountains. I greet France with almost the same emotion as when I first saw Paris seven years ago. I scarcely remember there is a war. I greet you, sweet soil of France.”

Original: Weiter freier Blick in die französ. Berge. Ich grüße Frankreich beinahe mit solcher Erschütterung wie damals, als ich vor 7 Jahren zum 1. Mal Paris sah. Ich denke kaum mehr, daß Krieg ist. Ich grüße Dich, süße Erde von Frankreich. — Written while serving as a German officer, it reveals his enduring emotional attachment to France despite the war · War diary, 10 August 1914 (German)

Ernst Stadler

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Ernst Stadler

11 August 1883–30 October 1914

Ernst Stadler was born on 11 August 1883 in Colmar, in Alsace, and was killed on 30 October 1914 near Zandvoorde in Flanders during the First World War. His life lasted little more than thirty-one years, and the body of poetry on which his reputation rests is correspondingly small. Yet his importance in…

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“Moral of the whole affair: our optimistic wishes and hopes are still decidedly premature, if we are ever to see them fulfilled at all. I am thoroughly weary of Germany.”

Original: Moral des Ganzen: unsere optimistischen Wünsche u. Hoffnungen sind noch reichlich verfrüht, wenn wir überhaupt jemals ihre Erfüllung erleben sollten. Ich bin reichlich deutschlandmüde. — A candid expression of disillusionment shortly before the outbreak of the First World War · Letter to René Schickele, July 1914 (German)

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