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Chapter 7 German Superiority a Myth That Has Exploded

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an megalomania. He portrayed a German schoolroom in Prussia. Thirty or forty e

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derstand the play. The Kaiser, the War Staff, the Cabinet, down to the last wret

f course the Germans are the greate

yet the German intellect has never even had a second-rate position. Call the roll of all the tools that have rede

locomotive and steamship; James Watt i

or their work in winter. Garments within the reach of the poor man in forest and factory, field and mine, means the cotton gin, a

e. We owe the cable in part to Lord Kelvin and, in part, to Cyrus

right the airplane, McCormick the

an torpedo; an American invented the German machine-gun; an American inv

cination, Lister antiseptics, France the Pasteur serums and the Curie radio disc

the typewriter, the steel building, the use of rubber, the aniline

s no German sculptor of the first class nor a German sculptor that is within ten thousand leagues of Rodin, Michael Angelo or Phidias. We have long known that Schubert and Schumann and Rubinstein and Haydn and Chopin were all Jews, and that three-fourths of the other so-called German musicians were Jews

he creative music, like that of Beethoven, a Germa

and scraps and odds and ends in a clothing factory-but, oh, think of an American gentleman having to wear the coat that was cut by a tailor in Berlin o

and bawl out to every passer-by: "Great is the Kaiser! Great are we Germans! Let all people with

elusion is exploded. The Kaiser has found out that it is

barrel of beer, the Prussian and the Bavarian are great; but the

at tool, or art, or contribution to science created by a German there

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