Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war. Ernst Toller Read Quote
Later we learned that it was one of our own men hanging on the wire. Nobody could do anything for him; two men had already tried to save him, only to be shot themselves. Ernst Toller Read Quote
How happy I am to go to the front at last. To do my bit. To prove with my life what I think I feel. Ernst Toller Read Quote
Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them. Ernst Toller Read Quote
After that I could never pass a dead man without stopping to gaze on his face, stripped by death of that earthly patina which masks the living soul. And I would ask, who were you? Where was your home? Who is mourning for you now? Ernst Toller Read Quote
Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty. Ernst Toller Read Quote
At that moment of realization I knew that I had been blind because I had wished not to see; it was only then that I realised, at last, that all these dead men, French and Germans, were brothers, and I was the brother of them all. Ernst Toller Read Quote
And the spirit of revolution will not die while the hearts of these workers continue to beat. Ernst Toller Read Quote
