In the mind of all the English soldiers there is absolutely no hate for the Germans, but a kind of brotherly though slightly comtemptuous kindness - as to men who are going through a bad time as well as ourselves.

British officer and poet Ivor Gurney, in a letter to Marion Scott, Februari 1917

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