Admiral Von Spee

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    I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve.
    Larry Forrester, U.S. screenwriter, Hideo Oguni, and Ryuzo Kikushima. Richard Fleischer, Toshio Masuda, Kinji Fukasaku. Admiral Yamamoto (Soh Yamamura)

    It is a maxim of wise government to treat people not as they should be but as they actually are.
    —Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)