Jenny’s Reviews > Flight to Arras > Status Update

…Demagogy enters at the moment when for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into a principle of identity. At that moment the private refuses to salute the captain,for by saluting the captain he is no longer doing honor to the Nation, but to the individual. As the inheritor of God, my civilization made men equal in Man.

Why I fight

“In my civilization, he who is different from me does not impoverish me—he enriches me.”

The author describes the futile and ludicrous scene of people evacuating their towns. The mass of people pass two to ten miles a day while the overtaking tanks can cover fifty miles in a day, aeroplanes at four hundred miles per hour.