There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the German. I never had to sow discord among them. All I had to do was unstretch my nets, and they would run in like a shy game. They choked each other, and they thought they were doing their duty. No other people on earth is more foolish. No lie can be concocted crudely enough: the Germans believe it. For a slogan given to them, they persecuted their countrymen with greater bitterness than their real enemies.