“"Democrat" is among officers simply a term denoting a bad lot.”

—  Alfred von Waldersee

Waldersee in his diary, quoted in Walter Görlitz, History of the German General Staff, 1657-1945 https://ia801907.us.archive.org/34/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.285159/2015.285159.The-_text.pdf

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