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
As to Person: My name is Kurt Hermann Georg Sorge. I am 27 years old;
Protestant; 1st Assistant Surgeon of the Ear Department of the town
Infirmary of Friedrichstadt, Dresden.
As to Case: During the fighting of the 1st Battalion, Rifle
Regiment No. 108, near and in Dinant, I was always in the immediate
neighbourhood of the troops engaged. I have repeatedly bandaged
riflemen whose injuries were to be ascribed to non-military rifles
(shot-wounds).
Women, children, and old men were always spared. The burial of the
inhabitants who had been shot, as far as my sphere of work extended,
never took place on the same day. I have, moreover, repeatedly seen
that bread and drink were handed to various inhabitants by the riflemen.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Dr. K. SORGE, Assistant Surgeon of Reserve, 1st Battalion,
Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: GLASER, Lieutenant of Reserve, Adjutant, 1st Battalion,
Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108, as Officer of the Military Court.
C. App. 56.
WOOD SOUTH-WEST OF LA VILLE-AUX-BOIS, _February 5th, 1915_.
By order of Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prinz Georg" there appeared as
witness Non-commissioned Officer Lauterbach, who, being warned to speak
the whole truth, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Paul Rudolf Lauterbach. I am 27 years old;
Protestant; by trade mechanician, now non-commissioned officer, 10th
Company, Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment No. 108.
As to Case: When, on our advance with the company, from the fort we
had reached the Sorinnes-Dinant road in Dinant, I distinctly saw how
a woman, standing at full height at a window, fired on the German
soldiers with a rifle. The woman was immediately shot by a German
soldier, and fell with the upper part of her body on the window-sill.
Volleys of rifle-fire were discharged from a remarkably large house on
the west bank of the Meuse which was flying the Red Cross flag.
South of the Dinant-Sorinnes road by the Meuse, at a place which I am
no longer able to fix, I saw lying there the charred body of a German
Jäger whose feet were bound together with wire.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: PAUL RUDOLF LAUTERBACH.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: LOSSOW, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: SCHUBERT, Clerk of the Military Court.
C. App. 57.
(Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100, 2nd Battalion.
WILLMSBARACKEN, _January 31st, 1915_.
Deposition concerning the wounding by the discharge of (small) shot in
Dinant.
There appeared as witness Grenadier Bischoff, who, being warned to
speak the truth, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Karl Bischoff. I was born on January 18th,
1893, at Dürschau, near Zittau; Protestant; by trade butcher.
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