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happy and proud to be a German.
What our navy is achieving in this war is nothing short of admirable. The feats of Waddigen and the other leaders of our U-boats cannot be emulated so easily, and if the whole world labels them Hun-like and barbarian, it’s our enemies that force us to it. Everybody has to stand up for himself in the battle of life as best as he can, and so, too, every nation when her existence is threatened. Sentimentalities have no place here. Had the English been in our situation, they would have acted the same, so their cries of outrage are nothing but hypocrisy. If they can’t bear seeing their ships sink, they shouldn’t let them depart; or at any rate, stop women and children from undertaking sea voyages during times of conflict, especially when given plenty of advance warning by the German government, as was the case with the “Lusitania”. And anyway, it wasn’t the Germans who began building submarines, but the French and the English. We had much fewer boats before the outbreak of war