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“The war had seized them, the war had mastered them, the war would never let them escape, and they could never fully return or belong to us again. They would always have war in their blood, death close at hand, horror, intoxication, and iron. What was happening now this return, this re-entry into the peaceful, orderly, bourgeois world was a transplant, a deception, and it could not succeed. The war was over; the warriors still marched.” — Ernst von Salomon, The Outlaws (Die Geächteten)