By Eduard Kopp
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"Hedwig Dohm, a gifted writer and Polemikerin, castigated the First World War as blasphemy
In 1917 there are only a few in Germany, the dream of the war would soon be victorious and come to an end. More than a million soldiers were killed in the battles of the Somme the year before or injured. And now, protests well into the German Parliament, an ever greedier war economy in Germany, the revolution in Russia, mutinies in the French armed forces. The German parliament decides in July 1917 a peace resolution without consequences. A peace note of Pope in August met with rejection.
As the book publisher prints a text of a 86-year-old woman who is condemned to war with no ifs and buts. Special feature: This text was already two years old. When he emerged, all of Germany still reveled in war fever. But Hedwig Dohm castigates early as 1915 in her essay "The misuse of the death of" the war as blasphemy "Read full article
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