"From 1871 to 1914, the Germans
under Bismarck and the Kaiser did not
fight a single war."*
"In European minds war is continuously associated with a flaw in the German national character ... The flaw has been traced to the battle of 9 A.D. which stopped the Romans, and the subsequent benefits of the Latin heritage, on the east banks of the Rhine. It is also blamed on the fact that Christianity came later to Germany than to most of Europe, and on the thousand-year heritage of little meaningless quarrels left by little German princes. No revolution ever succeeded in Germay. On such causes a variety of national defects past and present are charged."
*Number of wars source:
Churchill, Hitler & the Unnecessary
War (2008) Patrick J. Buchanan, page
58
