Item 59: Internment camp diary, November 1917-August 1918 - Page 40

<p>[Page 40]</p><p>The King of Bavaria is said to have said:</p><p>[In English]<br />We&nbsp;must fight until the ennemy [enemy] accepts our conditions. The ennemy&#39;s terms are exorbitant. Not an inch of German ground will be given up.</p><p>The Vorw&auml;rts [official publication of the German Social Democrats] said: &nbsp;<br />The Germans must guard against too much confidence in President Wilson - &nbsp;and even the Pravda, the Bolshevik mouthpiece in St Petersburg, writes:&nbsp; &quot;The president is the head of a rapacious American imperialism and the greatest hypocrite ever known in history&quot;.<br />[end of English quotes]</p><p>Thus, we can hope that the German people think in unison and are willing to continue fighting until the decisive victory. &nbsp;Since the Allies did not participate in the Brest-Litovsk negotiations, we have continued alone. Russia, which has split into two parts, apart from Poland and the Baltic provinces - namely, Greater Russia and Ukraine -&nbsp;seems to be pretty helpless. But Lenin &amp; Trotsky in St Petersburg are playing tough, so it appears that we came to a separate agreement</p>