Germany's violations of the laws of war 1914-1915 . rden alle erschossen, weil sie unsere Verwundeteverstumpeln u. misshande[l]n. Brigadebefehl. Thursday, August 27, 1914. The regiment is reconstructed. A single battalionhas been made out of the ist and 2d Battalions. I amappointed to the 8th Company. To-day again a number ofmen have rejoined who during the night had lost their wayin the forest. Our Major, Mosebach, is wounded, but noone knows what has become of him. French prisoners andwounded are all shot, because they mutilate and ill-treatour wounded. Brigade Order. Further, another soldie
Germany's violations of the laws of war 1914-1915 . rden alle erschossen, weil sie unsere Verwundeteverstumpeln u. misshande[l]n. Brigadebefehl. Thursday, August 27, 1914. The regiment is reconstructed. A single battalionhas been made out of the ist and 2d Battalions. I amappointed to the 8th Company. To-day again a number ofmen have rejoined who during the night had lost their wayin the forest. Our Major, Mosebach, is wounded, but noone knows what has become of him. French prisoners andwounded are all shot, because they mutilate and ill-treatour wounded. Brigade Order. Further, another soldier of the same brigade, theReservist Reinhard Brenneisen, of the 4th Companyof the 112th Regiment, at present a prisoner in England,wrote in his note-book: Auch kam Brigadebefehl samtliche Franzosen ob ver-wundet oder nicht die uns in die Hande fielen sollten ers-chossen werden, es durfte keinen Gefangenen gemachtwerden. Of the Laws of War 53 The Brigade Order is to shoot all Frenchmen who fallinto our hands, wounded or not. No prisoners to
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