If at home there are people so innocent as to imagine that … - Alfred von Waldersee

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If at home there are people so innocent as to imagine that it is here a case of propaganda for Christian civilization and Christian ways, they would be disillusionized. Since the Thirty Years' War and the plundering campaigns of the French in the age of Louis XIV there has been nothing like it.

Alfred von Waldersee

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Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee (8 April 1832 – 5 March 1904) was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) who became Chief of the Imperial German General Staff.

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Alternative Names: Alfred Ludwig Heinrich Karl Graf von Waldersee • Field Marshal Alfred Heinrich Karl Ludwig von Waldersee

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