English Translation

We are right to ask ourselves today whether we, men of duty, and these women, who brought such a spiritual force to follow us into this, one of the most difficult stages of life, deserve to walk along with disqualified warriors and honorable men, with a bland mark on our chests, with disqualified men, truly, this lot should not be given to us and to our women ... And if we, illuminating today's conditions, are to design images true to the facts that follow them, then we would have to find that in our families tears of women flow from their penetrating and tears of the child, from the reduction of their fathers and mothers, to whom we have to watch hard, combat-proven and of honor and duty-less men and with bitter pain in the heart .. A bitter lot, which - and we always gave the honor of the truth - humiliated us and occupied ourselves with suicide drugs ... and this at that late age, at which we should deserve to have done our responsibilities to the full, psychic rest .. We ask you to bear in mind that our reputation as old warriors is deeply depressed, that our dignity and the dignity of women and children are reduced, and that in such difficult times of war we are subjected to a mental depression that makes life no longer desirable for us by its inferior reputation.