[It’s] especially easy to manipulate children at that age… If you can drill the notion into their heads, you are from a tribe, a race that is especially valuable. And then you tell them something about the Germanic tribes, their loyalty, their battles… Then there were the songs… “Before the foreigner robs you of your crown, O Germany, we would prefer to fall side by side.” Or “The flag is dearer than death.” Death was nothing. The flag, the people — they were everything. You are nothing, your people everything. Yes, that’s how children were brought up, that’s how you can manipulate a child.
