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Title: Germany's violations of the laws of war 1914-1915
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: France. Ministère des affaires étrangères. (from old catalog) Bland, J. O. P. (John Otway Percy), 1863-1945, tr
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918 World War, 1914-1918 International law
Publisher: New York and London, G. P. Putnam's sons
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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f War 181 Tuch, Wein in Flaschen und Fassern, Hiihner undSchweine wurden mitgenommen. Urn i° gabs dasMittagessen und in Gesellschaft toter Franzosen wurdees eingenommen. Man gewohnt sich nun an alles. The corpses of the Frenchmen still wait for burial,but they all got a bullet in the head or the breast.Leave was given us to loot, and we did not need to betold twice. Bales of cloth, wine in bottles and flasks,fowls, and pigs were taken away. We had dinner ati oclock and it was eaten in the company of deadFrenchmen. One gets used to everything. No. 67 EXTRACT from the note-book of Max Peich, ijthRegiment of Infantry, \\th Army Corps, recordingthe murder of three men and a boy at Fumay(Ardennes). 24 August. Die Ziegelei wird noch einmal durch-sucht und wir holen noch 3 Mann und 1 Knaben auseinem Brennhofen heraus. Selbige werden dannerschossen. August 24. The brick-works were searched oncemore and three men and a youngster were brought outof one of the kilns. They were shot forthwith. m
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a X - * > ^ 182 No. 68 EXTRACT from the note-book of Private Philipp,of the 178th Regiment of Infantry, 12th ArmyCorps, describing the massacre of the civil popu-lation in a village near Dinant. Abends 10 Uhr riickte I 178 vom steilen Abhangeherunter in das brennende Dorf nordlich Dinant.Ein entsetzlich schaurig schoner Anblick. Gleich am Eingange lagen ca. 50 erschossene Burger,die meuchlings auf unsre Truppen gefeuert hatten. ImLaufe der Nacht wurden noch viele erschossen, sodasswir iiber 200 zahlen konnten. Frauen und Kinder,die Lampe in der Hand, mussten dem entzetzlichenSchauspiele zusehen. Wir assen dann immitten derLeichen unsern Reis, seit Morgen hatten wir nichtsgegessen. Beim Durchsuchen der Hauser, fanden wirviel Wein und Likor, aber keine Lebensmittel. Haupt-mann Hamann war betrunken. At 10 oclock in the evening the first battalion ofthe 178th marched down the steep incline into the burning village to the north of Dinant. A terrific 183 >£ /^ $§4** $*****& No.

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