Item 01: G. O. Hawkins articles and notes ca. 1916-1919 - Page 86
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he is biased by racial prejudice as he imagines he discovers in the German a distinctive type of human being. To him the Teutonic head appears to be of a bullet-like roundness with the rear part of the crown flattened at an angle indicating the lack of a sensitive conscience, the eyes hard and merciless and without the light of imagination, and the general expression of the face suggesting a forced over-evaluation of scientific fact and a stern divorcement of those higher spiritual qualities by which the nobility of a nation may be assessed.
Most of the English soldiers here are young men, many of them mere lads who have not yet faced the enemy. They display much interest in the German Prisoners, noting their uniforms of green-grey with red pipings, their red banded caps and their crown-