The young: one
almost unmanned me, her look was so innocent! But we could not
master the excited troop, for at such times they are no longer
men--they are beasts.
[Illustration: Figure 6.]
Let me add a few texts which will attest that these assassinations of
women and children are customary tasks set to German soldiers:
(a) The writer in a notebook, unsigned, reports that at Orchies (Nord)
"a woman was shot for not having obeyed the command to halt!" whereupon
he adds, "the whole locality was set on fire." (Fig. 7.)
[Illustration: Figure 7.]
(b) The officer of the 178th Saxon Regiment, mentioned above, reports
that in the vicinity of Lisognes (Belgian Ardennes) "the Chasseur of
Marburg, having placed three women in line, killed them all with one
shot."
(c) A few lines more, taken from the notebook of the Reservist Schlauter
(Third Battery, Fourth Regiment, Field Artillery of the Guard,) (Fig.
8:)
Aug. 25, (in Belgium.)--We shot 300 of the inhabitants of the
town. Those that survived the salvo were requisitioned as
grave diggers. You should have seen the women at that time!
But it was impossible to do otherwise. In our march upon Wilot
things went better; the inhabitants who wished to leave were
allowed to do so.
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