Alfred Polgar und Norman Angell über den Krieg

In his short essay "The war as an educator" from 1918, the Austrian writer Alfred Polgar (1873-195) critically examined the four preceding years of war and noted a general social decline. He ends his essay with the conclusion: "Hell is the biggest winner of the war. And heaven, it seems, stays 'closed' for the duration of the war." As early as 1909, Norman Angell (1872-1967), who later won the Nob…