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German Spirit in War Poems Amid Belief of Divine Mission
A neutral theologian criticizes a German pastor Dietrich Vorwerk and others for portraying the war as a sacred mission. Quotations show calls to God for thunder and victory, praise of German virtue, and the idea of Germany as chosen for world leadership, with ministers framing the conflict as divine judgment and moral crusade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
J. P. Bang
University of Copenhagen
Konsistorialrat
Dietrich Vorwerk
Ralph Connor
Doctor Bang
Masic
Belgium
Ernst Moritz Arndt
Meuse
Rhine
G. Traub
Arndt
P. de Lagarde
Bismarck
Lagarde
Emanuel Gelbel
Iles
Pastor Vorwerk
Fritz Philippi
F. Lienhardt
K. Hildebrand
H. Francke
Walter Lehmann
Hamberge
Holstein
Sarajevo
Sedan
St. Quentin
Paris
Karl Koenig
Kansas City
Stax