“The Italian Government has now written her perfidy indelibly with letters of blood on the pages of history.”

— Theobald von Bethmann-Hollweg

Speech to the Reichstag (28 May 1915), quoted in W. W. Coole (ed.), Thus Spake Germany (1941), p. 222

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