German Atrocities: An Official InvestigationMorgan, J. H. (John Hartman)
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German Atrocities: An Official Investigation
Morgan, J. H. (John Hartman)
World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities
(_b_) Extract from a Diary of a German Soldier of the 13th
Regiment, 13th Division, VIIth Corps captured by the Fifth
(French) Army and reproduced in the First (British) Army
Summary No. 95.
_December 19th, 1914._--“The sight of the trenches and the fury, not
to say bestiality, of our men in beating to death the wounded English
affected me so much that, for the rest of the day, I was fit for
nothing.”
(_c_) Contents of a Letter found on a Prisoner of the 86th
Regiment, but written by Johann Wenger (10th Company Body
Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Division I.A.C. Bav.) dated 16th
March, 1915, Peronne, and addressed to a German Girl.
(After promising to send a ring made out of a shell.) “It will be
a nice souvenir for you from a German warrior who has been through
everything from the start and has shot and bayoneted so many Frenchmen,
and I have bayoneted many women. During the fight at Batonville
[?Badonviller] I bayoneted seven (7) women and four (4) young girls in
five (5) minutes. We fought from house to house and these women fired
on us with revolvers; they also fired on the captain too, then he told
me to shoot them all--but I bayoneted them and did not shoot them,
this herd of sows, they are worse than the men.”
(_d_) Extracts from the Diary of Musketeer Rehbein, II., 55th
Reserve Infantry Regiment (2nd Company), 26th Reserve Infantry
Brigade, 2nd Guard Reserve Division, X. Reserve Corps.
(_This diary was captured during the recent operations at Loos, and
forwarded to Professor Morgan by the Head-quarters Staff._[94])
_August 16th_ (1914). On the march towards Louvain.--“Several
citizens and the curé have been shot under martial law, some not yet
buried--still lying where they were executed, for every one to see.
Pervading stench of dead bodies. The curé is said to have incited the
inhabitants to ambush and kill the Germans.”
1914. 16/8. Marsch nach Louveigne.--“Mehrere Bürger u. der Pfarrer
standrechtlich erschossen, zum Teil noch nicht beerdigt. Am
Vollziehungsplatz noch für jedermann sichtbar. Leichengeruch Uberall.
Pfarrer soll die Bewohner Angefeuert haben die Deutschen aus dem
Hinterhalt zu töten.”
(_e_) Extracts from the Diary of a German Soldier, Richard
Gerhold (Official Translation by French Head-quarters Staff).
EXTRAIT DU BULLETIN DE RENSEIGNEMENTS DE LA VIº ARMÉE DU 30 AVRIL, 1915
_Extraits du carnet de route trouvé le 22 avril sur le cadavre
du réserviste Richard Gerhold, du 71º R.R. (IVº C.R.) tué en
Septembre à Nouvron_
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