The defeat of the Augustan policy, as the peace with Maroboduus and the sufferance of the Teutoburg disaster may well be termed, was hardly a victory of the Germans.
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It is not only that Germany has been defeated in the war, Kaiser Wilhelm's Germany was defeated.
The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
Historians still often see the end of the war as meaning nothing more for Germany than lost territories, lost participation in colonization, and lost assets for the state and individuals. They frequently overlook the most serious loss that Germany suffered.
There are many victories worse than a defeat.
The courtesy which most becomes a victor was denied to Germany for a long time.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost.
There is no substitute for victory.
Looking back, I'm almost happy I lost that fight. Just imagine if I would have come back to Germany with a victory. I had nothing to do with the Nazis, but they would have given me a medal. After the war I might have been considered a war criminal.
In war there is no substitute for victory.