
And what was the consequence of these half-measures?
Anyhowthey did not honestly wish to learn anything. Anybody who had carefully investigated the Germanpropaganda must have formed that judgment of it.
The better it does that, thebetter is the art of the poster as such.
It was quite obvious that the enemywas in a state of depression. To be efficacious it had come from the home front.
At first all of it appeared to be idiotic in its impudentassertiveness.
Almostevery clerk was a Jew and every Jew was a clerk.
They weresimply above all such things, too clever to accept any teaching. And this end was thestruggle for existence of the German nation. In that propaganda carried on by the enemy I found admirablesources of instruction. But, apart from all this, the general spirit wasdeplorable.
And thus the result of the Bismarckian campaign wasdeplorable.
The better it does that, thebetter is the art of the poster as such. These two camps have one leadingthought, and that is that they must fight one another.
The lesson to be learned from this hadunfortunately no attraction for the geniuses on our own side.
On the contrary,the collapse of the one must necessarily drag the other down with it.
Meanwhile, what were our people doing in this sphere?
The spirit of the army at the front appeared to be out of place here. And it wasthen that I first conceived the idea of taking up political work lateron.