Not This Time!
Raemaekers the Prophet
"For twenty years I have clearly foreseen Germany's present attack
on the world. For twenty years I have been drawing and publishing
the same type of cartoons which have attracted so much
notice since the war. Seven years before the war I was already being
called ein feind Deutschland by the German press. I cannot possibly express
to you the unhappiness which I felt at being absolutely certain of
the impending doom, and at the same time being incapable of making
people foresee and believe it. My friends used to call me 'the man who
can see ghosts even in sunshine.' Yet it was I, not they, who really knew
the beasts as all the world knows them today; I was born in the little town
of Lemberg near Roermond, at a distance of only a few miles from the
German frontier, and have known the beasts all my life, not only in my
own country, but also in theirs, which I have visited many times. I
might almost say that I have visited it every year of my life. In Holland
we have a saying that 'even the best German has stolen a horse.' I
do not believe that there is any German who is not a pan-German. All
of them suffer from this national and nation-wide megalomania."
—From a conversation with Raemaekers reported in Eric
Fisher Wood's "Note-Book of an Intelligence Officer."
