I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.


Georg Alexander von Müller's diary entry (19 March 1918) before German Spring Offensive, quoted in Georg Alexander von Müller, The Kaiser and His Court (London: Macdonald, 1961), p. 343.


I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.

I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.

I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.

I will take the Duchy of Courland, I, the victor by the strength of my sword, but not from the hand of the assembly.