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Paul von Hindenburg on War

1847–1934 Germany

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I need them for the manoeuvring of my left wing in the next war.

You cannot wage war with sentimentality. The more ruthlessly war is conducted, the more merciful is it in fact, for it finishes the war the sooner.

I am not a pacifist. That is not my attitude. But all my impressions of war are so bad that I could be for it only under the sternest necessity…

In the Great War ledger, the page on which the Russian losses were written has been torn out. No one knows the figure. Five or eight Million?

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Paul von Hindenburg (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.