Houston Chamberlain's record from the First World War about the Serbs:
“The whole world knows what caused the conflict between Austria and Serbia; what Austria wanted and why it had to want it is equally clear; we also know that when Austria was forced to take up arms because Serbia refused to fulfill its demands—which aimed to ensure the punishment of the perpetrators of the assassination—it solemnly pledged to all the great powers that it would not seek any territorial expansion at Serbia's expense, nor would it impose any occupation or any diminution of Serbia's full, free sovereignty (see, for example, the German White Book No. 10). Thus, it was merely a matter of settling what could be called a "police matter" between Austria and Serbia; had no one interfered, everything would have been resolved within four weeks, and the status quo ante would have been restored, with the only difference being that the perpetrators of the assassination would be behind bars, and Serbia would have learned a harsh lesson to leave Austria—and with it, all of Europe—in peace. Anyone familiar with Eastern Europe knows that it is Serbia that never allows this part of the world to rest: all of Serbia is a nest of conspirators, passionate political idiots who consider themselves the center of the world, intoxicated by their imagined superiority and finding no good in others; while the Croats stand out as capable, brave, and strong, their cousins, the Serbs, are reckless, boastful, idiotic and criminal. Among the many thousands in England, France, and Italy who today enthusiastically support Serbia, condemn Austria, and repeat the Russian Tsar's foolish words about the "shameful waging of war against small and weak nation", who among them knows the situation and understands what Austria has had to endure from this one neighbor for nearly two generations? No one. Nevertheless, one would have thought that when the world learned that Austrian princes and princesses were murdered on their own soil by Serbs, when it became clear that these murderers were not hardened, depraved criminals acting on their own but idealistic youths driven mad by the wild talk of "Greater Serbia," emissaries of a conspiracy that included active Serbian officers and state officials, that the bombs came from a Serbian military arsenal, that a major provided the perpetrators with shooting lessons, and that senior border officials smuggled them across the Serbian border into Bosnia—one would have thought that a wave of outrage over this unprecedented atrocity would sweep across Europe. That this did not happen is highly remarkable and has not been sufficiently noted. The almost silent acceptance of this monstrous act is the work of the press: the press of England, France, Russia, and Italy; the press, which usually exploits such events, began to downplay the initial outrage almost immediately, and in no time at all, the assassination in Sarajevo was no longer talked about.”
— Houston Stewart Chamberlain, "Wer hat den Krieg verschuldet?", Neue Kriegaufsätze [New War Essays], F. Bruckmann K.-G., Munich, 1915, Ch. II, pp. 71-72.
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