{"id":9512,"date":"2012-07-29T16:22:53","date_gmt":"2012-07-29T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/29\/a-reason-why-germany-had-to-lose-the-war\/"},"modified":"2012-07-29T16:22:53","modified_gmt":"2012-07-29T16:22:53","slug":"a-reason-why-germany-had-to-lose-the-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/29\/a-reason-why-germany-had-to-lose-the-war\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reason Why Germany Had to Lose the War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theodor_Haecker\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Theodor Haecker\">Theodor Haecker<\/a>, <strong>Journal in the Night<\/strong>, tr. A. Dru, Pantheon, 1950, p. 172, entry #579 of 10 September 1941:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">A year ago today the official propagandist, Fritsche, talking on the wireless, said of the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Blitz\" rel=\"wikipedia\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"The Blitz\">bombing of London<\/a>: &#39;Once upon a time fire rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrha, and there only remained seventy-seven just men; it is very doubtful whether there are seventy-seven just people in London today.&#39;&#0160; I already know many reasons why Germany will not win the war.&#0160; Fritsche&#39;s speech is one.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">See the <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/haecker-theodor\/\" target=\"_self\">eponymous category<\/a> for more from his pen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><em>Concluding punctilious postscript<\/em>:&#0160; I added a hyperlink to (Dru&#39;s translation of) Haecker&#39;s text.&#0160; That bit of contextualization enriches and thus modifies the sense of his text.&#0160; Worth noting if not worth worrying about.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theodor Haecker, Journal in the Night, tr. A. Dru, Pantheon, 1950, p. 172, entry #579 of 10 September 1941: A year ago today the official propagandist, Fritsche, talking on the wireless, said of the bombing of London: &#39;Once upon a time fire rained down upon Sodom and Gomorrha, and there only remained seventy-seven just men; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2012\/07\/29\/a-reason-why-germany-had-to-lose-the-war\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Reason Why Germany Had to Lose the War&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181,182],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-by-others","category-haecker-theodor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}