Someone’s order turned these silent figures into our enemies; another order could turn them into our friends. Some people, whom none of us knows, sat somewhere at the table and signed the document, and for a few years we see our highest goal being that the human race is usually stamped with contempt and punished with the most severe punishment. Who among us would now be able to see enemies in these humble people with their childish faces and apostolic beards? Every unterror towards his recruits, every classful mentor towards his students is a much worse enemy than they are to us. And yet, if they were free now, we would have started shooting at them again, and they at us.
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