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 Case: I also extended my medical activity during the whole of
the day to the wounded inhabitants of Dinant. In one case I treated a
young girl with a shot wound in the head, and allowed her a separate
room in the house where I had set up my place for dressing-station, so
that her parents could be with her. As towards the evening that part
of the town in which my hospital lay came under heavy artillery fire,
I had the girl carried to a safer part of the town. This was in the
street where the town gaol of Dinant is situated. The wounded girl,
in consequence of her severe injury, lay at the point of death. In
a column of inhabitants which was being sent across the Meuse was a
clergyman, whom I recognised as such by his clothes. I begged him to
take charge of her, and was witness how he gave her absolution. I was
present the whole day (August 23rd, 1914) in Dinant, and did not notice
any excesses on the part of the German soldiers.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Dr.med. HANS MARX.
The witness was then sworn.
Signed: V. HAUGK, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: HARTMANN, Non-commissioned Officer
and Military Clerk of the Court.
APPENDIX D.--LOUVAIN
App. D.
War Office.
Military Inquiry Office regarding the Breaches of Rules and Usages of
War.
THE UPRISING OF THE BELGIAN POPULACE IN LOUVAIN, 25TH TO THE 28TH
AUGUST 1914.
_Summary Report._
1. The uprising of the town of Louvain against the German troops of
occupation and the judgment inflicted on this town have found a lasting
echo in the whole world.
In the first place, because Louvain is a town famous on account of its
time-honoured University, its rich architectural monuments and art
treasures, the fate of which would interest wide circles; principally,
however, because of the action of the opponents of the German people,
especially of the Belgian Government, who have circulated and spread
abroad in the world by means of the Press, by their foreign diplomatic
representatives, and by agents sent everywhere, reports of the events
of August 1914, which were designed to prejudice public opinion against
the Germans.
The Commission appointed by the Belgian Government for inquiry into
the violation of the code of International Law and of the laws and
usages of war, has tried by every means to throw the blame for the
disturbances in Louvain on the German troops. In several reports it has
brought forward the accusation that the German troops, in violation of
International Law and without any reason, have attacked and ill-treated
the--so it is alleged--unsuspecting and peaceful inhabitants of
Louvain, have wounded and killed a great number, have plundered,
desolated, and burned, and, in fact, completely destroyed the town.
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