The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
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The German Army in Belgium, the White Book of May 1915
Germany. Auswärtiges Amt
World War, 1914-1918 -- Atrocities; World War, 1914-1918 -- Belgium
years of age received a shot in the stomach from the other bank of the
Meuse. She was bandaged by two German stretcher-bearers.
One man was caught in the street by two Grenadiers, who declared he
had wounded Captain Legler. We tied his hands with a cord and took him
with us. He was, however, rescued by civilians in the street-fighting.
I recognised him again among the men lined up for execution by the
marks left by the cord on his hands. In a house which had already been
searched, and which I and a Grenadier were again searching through, I
found behind a secret door two men of about twenty years of age; each
had a revolver in his hand from which shots had already been discharged.
Among the persons who had been taken to the prison was a well-dressed
man of about seventy years of age. A bulging of his waistcoat attracted
my attention; when I went to touch it he said, "Purse." I tore his
waistcoat open and produced from it a small revolver from which a shot
had already been discharged. As far as I know, this old man was not
among those who were shot. To judge by the continuous firing, all the
inhabitants of Dinant must have taken part in the shooting. When we
were attending to the thirteen-year-old girl who had been shot, her
father, a Luxemburger living in Dinant, who spoke broken German, said
that in Dinant parents had given revolvers to their children of ten to
twelve years so that they might shoot at the "Allemands."
In the prison we found about eight pistols and the same number of
swords, as well as a cigar-box full of cardboard packets which were
filled with small shot.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: BARTUSCH.
Witness was hereupon sworn.
Signed: SCHWEINITZ. Signed: LIPS.
C. App. 11.
WILLMSBARACKEN, _February 3rd, 1915_.
_Deposition._
By order of the regiment there appeared as witness Grenadier of the
Reserve Straczinsky, 4th Company (Guards), Grenadier Regiment No.
100, who, being warned to speak the whole truth, made the following
deposition:
As to Person: My name is Felix Johannes Straczinsky; born on the 15th
June 1890 at Bautzen (Saxony); Evangelical-Lutheran.
As to Case: I was wounded on August 23rd, 1914, in Dinant by a
discharge of small shot fired from a cellar window. The shot went
into my right ankle. The grains of shot were removed at Julich, near
Aachen, where I was under treatment. I saw the shot myself.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: JOHANNES STRACZINSKY.
The witness was hereupon sworn.
Also signed.
Signed: VON HAUGK, 1st Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: BEYMANN, Acting-Sergeant-Major and Clerk to the Court.
C. App. 12.
EXTRACT from the Reports of the Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade and
of Regiments Nos. 108 and 182 on the fighting at Dinant, August 23rd,
1914.
Staff of the 46th Infantry Brigade.
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