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 understand?—in the face of God, in the face of humanity, for mere military vainglory, to expose to the horrors of famine a city of two millions.... Do not speak of your resistance, it is criminal!'"

Abeken, who was called "Bismarck's Pen," wrote of his chief—

"Goethe's saying, 'Faithful to one aim, even on a crooked road,' suits him well."

Such was the founder of the German Empire. and such the methods by which he founded it.