- You are the chosen ones of the German Army. You will seek combat and train yourselves to
endure any manner of test. To you, the battle shall be fulfillment.
- Cultivate true comradeship, for by the aid of your comrades you will conquer or die.
- Beware of talking. Be not corruptible. Men act while women chatter.Chatter may bring you
to the grave.
- Be calm and prudent, strong and resolute. Valour and enthusiasm of an offensive spirit
will cause you to prevail in the attack.
- The most precious thing in the presence of the foe is ammunition. He who shoots
uselessly, merely to comfort himself, is a man of straw who merits not the title of
Parachutist.
- Never surrender, to you death or victory must be a point of honour.
- You can triumph only if your weapons are good. See to it that you submit yourself to
this law - first my weapon and then myself.
- You must grasp the full purpose of every enterprise, so that if your leader is killed
you can fullfil it.
- Against an open foe, fight with chivalry, but to a guerilla, extend no quarter.
- Keep your eyes wide open. Tune yourself to the topmost pitch. Be nimble as a greyhound,
as tough as leather, as hard a Krupp steel, and so you shall be the German warrior
incarnate.
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