foolish laws and by neglect to apply the Articles of War as they should have been applied, were kept alive also almost to a man.
This carefully preserved scum of our nation then made the Revolution, and it was only able to do so because the extreme section of the best was no longer there to withstand it. It had all been killed in battle.
Those Marxist freebooters could not depend for long on popular support alone for their authority. And yet the young Republic had need of it at any cost, for they were not willing, after a short period of chaos, to be crushed down suddenly by a punitive force assembled out of the last relics of the good element in our nation.
The element which harboured the revolutionary idea and carried through the Revolution was neither able nor ready to call on the soldiers to protect it. For what that element wanted was not to organize a State, but to disorganize what existed; it suited their instincts better. Their password was not Order and Construction for the German Republic, but rather Plundering of it.
There appeared then for the first time numbers of young Germans ready in the service, as they said, of peace and order, to draw on the soldier’s tunic again, shoulder their rifles and put on their steel helmets to go against the destroyers of their homeland. They assembled in bodies as volunteers, and set to work, all the time hating the Revolution, to protect it and thus to strengthen it in practice. They acted thus in all good faith.
The real organizers of the Revolution, and its actual wire-puller, the international Jew, had gauged the situation correctly. The time had not arrived for thrusting the German nation into the blood-slough of Bolshevism, as had happened in Russia. The question was : What would the troops from the front do about it ? Would the men in field-grey stand it ?