Kaiser Wilhelm's Proclamation to the Army nearing defeat II

The hour is grave!

We are fighting for the future of the Fatherland and for the protection of the soil of the Homeland. To that end we need the united action of the intellectual, moral, and economic powers of Germany.

On the co-operation of those powers our invincibility rests. The will for defence must bind all separate views and separate wishes into one great unity of conception.

God grant us something of the spirit of the war of liberation.


 * WILHELM