| Summary: | Appeal to all German young men between ages of 16 and 22 in the Brandenburg and Berlin region to join the "Jugendkompagnicen" (youth companies). The notice insists they prepare thoroughly for their high calling to defend the fatherland. It also mandates that parents, masters, teachers, and employers grant these young men time off for training exercises, framing participation as a crucial patriotic duty that builds essential discipline and readiness for when the nation calls them to battle. Includes quote from patriotic poem titled "Der deutsche Gott" (The German God) written during the Napoleonic Wars of 1812-1813 by the German poet Max von Schenkendorf "Und ob die halbe Welt uns feind, In Niedertracht und Lügen, Ein Volk wie wir, im Kampf vereint, Wird siegen, siegen, siegen!" [And though half the world be our foe, In malice and in lies, A people like us, united in struggle, Will conquer, conquer, conquer!].
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