[Publius]

In 1898, an enterprising journalist got an interview with Otto von Bismarck. He asked the old man if he thought there would again be a general war across Europe.

Bismarck grunted assent and said it "would begin with some foolishness in the Balkans." He also said there was nothing there worth the life of a single German soldier.

Some 16 years later, he would prove prophetic.

[Flash Bazbeaux]

“He also said there was nothing there worth the life of a single German soldier. “

I think he said, in translation “not worth the bones of a single Pomeranian grenadier”.