Thy Work, Judas!

Category

Library Item

Item no

33457

Title

Thy Work, Judas!

Description

"The nineteenth century saw the German Empire: the twentieth century shall see a German world. - General von der Goltz."

"Remember that the German people are chosen of God. On me - on me as the German Emperor, the spirit of God has descended. I am His weapon, His sword, and His vice-regent. - the Emperor Wilhellm."

"This system ... gave him what he said he most needed - soldiers, millions of them. Soldiers ready to sink their conscience in their obedience to the Almighty State and violate all international pledges, all civilised rules of war, all restraints of humanity. Soldiers ready to invade neutral territory, to devastate and ruin peaceful lands, to burn villages, to poison wells, to attack hospitals and kill Red Cross nurses, to shoot old men and women and priests, to sink merchant ships without warning and drown helpless passengers and crews , to butcher little children to rape women, and to carry girls away into white slavery. Soldiers who answer to the words which the Kaiser spoke to his guard: 'You have given yourselves to me, body and soul. For you there is only one enemy, and that is my enemy. It may happen - I pray God avert it - that I order you to shoot down your relations, your brothers, nay, your parents; but then without a murmur you must obey my commands.' - Henry van Dyke."

Artist / maker

Raemaekers, Louis

Date

1919

Size

22.8 x 33.8 cm

Type

Chromolithograph

Location

Art and Design Library

Copyright

Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the Louis Raemaekers Foundation.