Schrecklichkeit

Terrorism -- "Schrecklichkeit" -- has always formed a part, not only of German military inclination, but of German military policy.

Face to Face with Kaiserism 1909

After a few such clashes the invaders learned that when it came to this Schrecklichkeit business they had no monopoly on the article.

In the Claws of the German Eagle Albert Rhys Williams 1922

Unless you stopped the well-known _Schrecklichkeit_

Something Else Again 1920

Aside from mere _Schrecklichkeit_ -- a desire to carry the terrors of war to English soil -- these raids had the legitimate military objects of helping distant cruisers by holding British ships in home waters, of delaying troop movements to France, and of creating a popular clamor that might force a dislocation or division of the Grand Fleet.

A History of Sea Power William Oliver Stevens 1916

A private deck on the _Schrecklichkeit_ would have been more his size.

The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

They lusted again for their old policy of "ruthlessness"; "_Schrecklichkeit_" joined "_Gott strafe_" in familiar speech, and Germany added America to her

We Can't Have Everything Rupert Hughes 1914

The threat had no effect in the way of _Schrecklichkeit_, but rather it steeled us to a future which began to appear inevitable.

Our Navy in the War Lawrence Perry 1914

Leave this part of Germany to me, and be prepared for Schrecklichkeit.

The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

They had heard their men brag for too many years about their admirable policy of Schrecklichkeit to forget the lesson in this fateful hour.

The White Morning Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902

Might not these plain lessons have been used as a warning to the people of modern Germany to discourage their predatory propensities and their habits of devastation and to hold them back from their relapse into the _Schrecklichkeit_ of savage warfare?

The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales Henry Van Dyke 1892