[A]
[Footnote A: "Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege," Berlin, 1902, in Vol. VI., in
the series entitled "Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften," published in
1905. A translation of this monograph, by Professor J.H. Morgan, has
recently been published.]
If this explanation be the true one, the mystery is solved, and that
which seemed scarcely credible becomes more intelligible, though not
less pernicious. This is not the only case that history records in which
a false theory, disguising itself as loyalty to a State or to a Church,
has perverted the conception of duty and become a source of danger to
the world.
PART II.
Having thus narrated the offenses committed in Belgium, which it has
been proper to consider as a whole, we now turn to another branch of the
subject, the breaches of the usages of war which appear in the conduct
of the German Army generally.
This branch has been considered under the following heads:
First.--The treatment of noncombatants, whether in Belgium or
in France, including--
(a) The killing of noncombatants in France;
(b) The treatment of women and children;
(c) The using of innocent noncombatants as a screen or shield
in the conduct of military operations;
(d) Looting, burning, and the wanton destruction of property.
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