Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-05-01
GERMAN SCHOOL GIRL
WRITES HER FRIEND.
Tells That World Was Made For
Prussians Alone. Says War
Was Sought.
PROVOKED AT MEDDLING.
Bares Soul Of Hun And Shows
Kind Of Enemy We Have To
Fight In The Present
World War.

WlllCn mas cen reprinted widely III
Europe shows the teachings which
have knitted the German people into
fanatic unit under the rule of the war
mad prussians.
This truly remarkable evidence of
Hun desire for world domination has
been given TO thousands Of American
soldiers. so that they may see just
what sort of foe they are fighting.
IN q letter to his parents Lieut..
Arthur r. Knott, Princeton. II. sends
home n copy. The letter was turned
over 10 the war records committee of
Princeton University and published
in The Princeton Alumni Weekly.
The letter and introduction as pub
lished by the Princeton paper follows:
THE following letter written by
Prussian schoolgirl to a friend in
Switzerland is published for the in
formation of those inclined to think
that Germany was forced into this
war This girls father is a public
official, and she, although young. is
only rejecting the opinion of her
elders
1T is well TO keep all evidence like
this of Germanys guilt in mind at all
times in order that our sympathies
may not be wasted on the criminal,
baked at his crimes and now yelling
for mercy
Frankfort on-Odor, Goth July, 1916.
MY Dear Louise-The contents of
your last letter would have hurt me
had | not known that your thoughts
of our glorious war resulted from
sheer ignorance.
You are in a country rendered eff
Terminate by the influence of old-fash-
Toned ideas of liberty, country which
is at least two centuries behind ours.
You are in need of IA good dose of
Prussian culture.
at is evident that you, Swiss girl,
with your French sympathies, cannot
understand how my heart, the heart
of young German girl, passiOnately
desired this war. Speaking of it some
years ago, my father said to us:
Children, Germany is getting too
small for us; we shall have to go to
France again in order to find more
room Is it our fault if France will
not understand that more money and
land is necessary for us?
And you reproach us that our SOL
diers have been very cruel to the Bel
gian rabble, and you speak also of the
destruction of Rheims and of the
burning of villages and towns. Well,
that is war. AS in every other under
taking, we are past masters of war.
You have a great deal to learn be-
fore you can come up to our stand
ards and | can assure you that what
has been done so far is a mere baga-
telle compared with what will follow.
"As matter of fact there is but one
race worthy of ruling the world. and
which has already attained the high
est degree of civilization. That race
is ours, the Prussians; for although
we Germans in general are lords of
the world, the Prussians are undoubt-
eddy the lords par excellence among
the Germans
"All other nations. and among them
unfortunately the Swiss, are degen-
crate and of inferior worth That is
why l have always been so proud of
being a true Prussian.
Yesterday, again, our pastor ex-
planned to us convincingly that our
first parents, Adam and Eve, were al
so Prussians. That is quite easy to
understand, because the Bible tells us
that the German God created us all
after his own image. If then all men
are descended from Adam and his
wife, it follows that only Prussians,
10 s-F IN,
the world, and that all who push on
and prosper ought to belong to us.
You must admit that that is logic,
and that is why our motto is, God
with us, Germany above everything.
You know now why we wished this
war. Is it not shameful that other
nations, who have no right to exist
ence on the earth. wish to diminish
our heritage! We are the divine
fruit and the others are only weeds.
That is why our great Emperor has
decided to put an end TO all these in
justices and to extirpate the weeds.
Do you understand that now? | re-
main, your school friend,
KATIE HAAIEL.
Daughter of the State Councillor of
Architecture"
Referring to the letter. Lieutenant
Knott writes:
This shows very completely just
how the Kaiser gets so much support
from his poor idiot people. His whole
system of education is just for the
purpose of teaching them his own
ideals-that he and they are it, and
for his own nefarious deeds.
1T may take us five years, it may
be only six months, but from what We
have learned over here that nation
must be so soundly walloped that it
will never cause any more trouble"