Note 21 — Chapter II · VIOLATIONS OF THE HAGUE CONVENTION
Bernard Miall translation
A perusal of Clausewitz, von Hartmann, and the Kriegsbrauch would have dispelled all doubt. None of these theories is new: how often does a German develop a new theory? This peculiarly bloodless, mechanically ferocious barbarism is nearly a century old. The French had seen it in action before.—(Trans.)