I feel like I should save this for Armistice Day, but it’s just too good.

The Germans loudly proclaimed to the rest of the world that if anyone sought to cast the shadow of dishonour upon their unspotted eagle-banner they would unsheathe the sword their fathers had bequeathed to them and would gird on the shining armour fashioned for them by Thor, the God of War, and, with the words of Luther on their lips, under the auspices of the God of the Germans, would ”let loose” . . . upon an effete Europe and so secure a place in the sun. The rest of the world, with Great Britain at its head, replied that in the event of certain unfortunate eventualities, certain other unfortunate eventualities might eventuate.

— Ford Madox Ford

(Who was half English and half German, and likely knew whereof he spoke.)