Extracts taken from Roger Casement's diary during his eighteen months in Germany from October 1914-April 1916. Fuller, annotated versions appear in the latest edition of the Field Day Review.
This first extract describes Casement's return to Cologne after visiting senior officials of the German General Staff at the Western Front in November 1914, just inside the French-Belgian border.
The second, reflecting his disillusion, is taken from his diary as he negotiated with the German government and prepared to leave the country by submarine in 1916.