An account of the massacre of some of these
unfortunate civilian prisoners given by two witnesses may be quoted:
"We were all placed in Station Street, Louvain, and the German
soldiers fired upon us. I saw the corpses of some women in the
street. I fell down, and a woman who had been shot fell on top
of me. I did not dare to look at the dead bodies in the
street, there were so many of them. All of them had been shot
by the German soldiers. One woman whom I saw lying dead in the
street was a Miss J., about 35. I also saw the body of A.M.,
(a woman.) She had been shot. I saw an officer pull her corpse
underneath a wagon."
Another witness, who was taken from Aerschot, also describes the
occurrence:
"I was afterward taken with a large number of other civilians
and placed in the church at Louvain. Then we were taken to
Station Street, Louvain. There were about 1,500 civilians of
both sexes, and we had been marched from Aerschot to Louvain.
When we were in Station Street I felt that something was about
to happen, and I tried to shelter in a doorway.
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