“War is elevating, because the individual disappears before the great conception of the state … What a perversion of morality to wish to abolish heroism among men.”

Heinrich von Treitschke (1834 to 196)Heinrich von Treitschke was a German historian and political writer whose advocacy of power politics was influential at home and contributed to distrust of Germany abroad.

Heinrich von Treitschke was a German historian and political writer whose advocacy of power politics was influential at home and contributed to distrust of Germany abroad.