The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 07, 1918, Page 2, Image 2
GERMAN WAf
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Issued by the Committee
(Introduction Continued.) .
For the guidance of the officers,
in case the inhabitants of conquer-;
ed territory should take up arms,
against the German army, the Ger-j
man War book quotes with approval:
the letter Napoleon sent to his brother
Xoseph, when the inhabitants of;
Italy were attempting to revolt,1
against him. j
"The security of your dominion.
depends on how you behave in the
conquered province. Burn down a,
dozen places which are not willing;
to submit themselves. Of course,;
not until you have first looted them; j
my soldiers must not be allowed to
go away with their hands empty.!
Have three to six persons hanged
in every village which has joined j
the revolt; pay no respect to the
cassock" (that is, to members of j
the clergy.)
German War Proclamation in French
Translations.
Some rules laid down in the German
War Book are illustrated and
their spirit made more definite in;
L' Interprete Militaire zum Ge-j
brauch im Feindesland (Military In-j
terpreter for Use in the Enemy's!
Country). This is a manual edited
at Berlin in 1906. "It contains,"
' says the introduction, "the French
translation of the greater part of the
documents, letters, and proclamations,
and some orders of which it
may be necessary to make use in
time of w$r." Thus, eight years
before this war began, the German
military authorities were not only
|-- ..preparing their officers to wage war
in a manner wholly contrary to The
,
Hague regulations, 'but also were
looking forward to the use of-these
, proclamations in French or Belgian
^ * territory. Among its forms, ready
( for use by inserting names, date, and
place, are the following:
"A fine of 600,000 marks in consequence
of an attempt made by
to assasinate a German soldier, is
imposed on the town of O. By order
of ??.
"Efforts have been made, without
result, to obtain the withdrawal of
the fine.
"The term fixed for payment expires
to-morrow, Saturday, DecemU'':.
ber 17, at noon
' "Bank notes, cash, or silver plate
will be accepted."
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/ "I have to acknowledge receipt of
?r your letter dated the 7th of this
month, in which you bring, to my
notice the great difficulty which you
< expect to meet in levying che contributions.
? ? * i can but regret the
explanations which you have thought
proper to give me on this subject;
the orde^ in question which emanatcfs
from my Government is so
dear - and precise, and the instructions
which I have received in the
Y /; matter are so categorical that if the .
v . sum due by the town of R- is
not paid the town will be burned
down without pity!"
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v- "On account of the destruction of
F , I order: The district shall
pay a special contribution of 10,000,000
frances by way of amends. This
life is brought to the notice of the public
who are informed that the method
of assessment will be announced
later and that the payment of the
said sum will be enforced with the
utmost serverity. The village of
jg /;<; P will be destroyed immediY
ately by fire, with the exception of
y :.t certain buildings occupied for the
use of the troops."
These forms have been of great
use to the German commanders in
Belgium and Northern France. The
closeness with which they have been
followed in these conquered lands,
during the present war, may be seen
by reading the following proclamations:
* "The City of Brussels, exclusive
of its surburbs, has been punished
by an additional fine of 5,000,000
francs on account of the attack made
upon a German soldier by Ryckere,
, one of its police officials,
"The Governor of Brussels,
"BARON VON LUETTWITZ.
November 1, 1914.
Placard posted on the wralls of
t t;r>ovi11? hv nrripr r?f the Germani
authorities:
"Notice to the People.
"Some of the inhabitants of Luneville
made an attack from ambuscade
on the German column and
wagons (trains). -The same (some
of the) inhabitants shot at sanitary
formations marked with the Tied
Cross, In addition German wounded
and the military hospital containing
a German ambulance were
fired upon.
"Because of these acts of hostility
. a fine of 650,000 francs is imposed
upon the commune of Luneville. The
mayor is ordered to pay this sum in
gold or silver up to 50,Q00 francs,
September 6, 1914, at nine o'clock
in the morning, to the representative
of the German military authority.
All protests will be considered null
and void. No delay will be granted.
"If the commune does not punctually
obey the order to pay the sum
of 650,000 francs, ail property that
can be levied upon will be seized.
"In case of non-payment, visits
from house to house will be made
and all the inhabitants will be
searched. If anyone knowingly has
[PRACTICES
lunro, Princton UniSellery,
University
August C Krey,
F Minnesota
; on Public Information
concealed money or attempted to
hold back his goods from the seizure
by the military authorities, or if
anyone attempts to leave the city,
he will be shot.
"The Mayor and the hostages
taken by the military authorities will
be held responsible for the exact
execution of the above orders.
"The Mayor is ordered to publish
immediately this notice to the Commune.
"Henamenil, Sept. 3, 1914^
"The General in Chief
"VON FASBEXDER,"
The German officers were provided |
with the forms to be used in terrorizing
the conquered people. The
common soldiers were provided with
phrase books which would enable
them to impose their will upon the
terrified people. Minister Brand
Whitlock in his report to the State
department on September 12, 1917,
writes:
"The German soldiers were provided
with phrase books giving
alternate translations in German and
French of such sentances as:
" Hands up.' (It is the very first
sentence in the book.)
" "Carry out all the furniture.
" 'I am thirsty. Bring me some
beer, gin, rum.
" 'You have to supply a barrel of
wine and a keg of beer.
" 'If you lie to me, I will have you
shot immediately.
" Lead me to the wealthiest inhabitants
of this village. I have
orders to requistion several barrels
of wine.
" 'Show me -the way to?, If you
lead us astray, you will be shot.' "
The System of Frightfulness.
The quotations and the procla
mations printed above show clearly
the attitude of mind of the German
military authorities. The policy of
frightfulness had been exalted into
a system with every minute detail
worked out in advance. The German
War Book with its " cold-blooded
doctrines of the nature of war and
the means which may be employed
in prosecuting war" did its work in
training the German officials. Of
this book it has been well said: "It
is the first time in the history of
mankind that a creed so revolting
has been deliberately formulated by
a great civilized State." The generals
gave their sanction to this policy of
frightfulness. Gen von Bernhardi
was quoted in an interview in the
Neue Freie Presse of Vienna as follows:
"One cannot make war in a sentimental
fashion. The more pitiless
the conduct of the war, the more
humane it is in reality, for it will
run its course all the sooner. The
war which of all wars is and must be
most humane is that which leads to
peace with as little delay as possible."
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This interview was produced in
the Berliner Tageblatt of November
20, 1914.
Mr. F. C. Walcott, of the Belgian
Relief Commission, tells, in the
Geographical Magazine for May,
1917, of meeting Gen. von Bernhardi:
Interview with Bernhardi.
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as i waiKea out,, ureuerai vuu
Bernhardi came into the room, an
expert artillery-man, a professor in
one of their war colleges. I met him
the next morning, and he asked me
if I had read his book, Germany in
the Next War.
"I said I had. He said, 'Do you
know, my friends nearly ran me out
of the country for that. They said,
'You have let the cat out of the bag.'
I said, 'No' I have not, because
nobody will believe it.' 'What did
you think of it?'
"I said, 'General, I did not believe
a word of it when I read it, but I
now feel that you did not tell the
whole truth;' and the old general
looked actually pleased."
Statement by von Bissing.
Belgium, Gen. von Bissing said:
Speaking on August 29, 1914, at
Munster, the extreme measures which
the Germans had felt obliged to
take against the civil population of
"The innocent must suffer with
the guilty. * * * In the repression
of infamy, human lives cannot be
spared, and if isolated houses, flourishing
villages, and even entire towns
are annihilated, that is assuredly
regrettable, but it must net excite
ill-timed sentimentality. All this
must not in our eyes weigh as much
as the life of a single one of our
brave soldiers?the rigorous accomplishment
of duty is the emanation of
a high Kultur, and in that, the population
of the enemy countries can
learn a lesson from our army."
Hon tt/~vr? nr n /n?< U 2m
vjcii. vuu uiooiu5, aitci HIS upyuilllment
as governor general of Belgium,
repeated in substance the
above opinion to a Dutch journalist.
The interview is published in the
Dusseldorfer Anzeiger of December
8, 1914.
Irvin S. Cobb states his conclusions
of the responsibility of the
higher German command for the
atrocities:
"But I was an eyewitness to crimes
which, measured by the standards of
humanity and civilization, impressed
me as worse than any individual excess,
any individual outrage, could
ever have been or can ever be; because
these crimes indubitably wer. >
instigated on a wholesale basis by
order of officers of rank, and must
havo been carried out under their
personal supervision, direction and
approval. Briefly, what I saw was
this: I saw wide areas of Belgium
and France in which not a penny's
worth of wanton destruction had
been permitted to occur, in which
the ripe pears hung untouched upon
the - garden walls; and I saw other
wide areas where scarcely one stone
had been left to stand upon another:
where the fields were ravaged; where
the male villagers had been shot in
squads; where the miserable survivors
had been left to den in holes, like
wild beasts.
"Taking the physical evidence of
lereu ueiure uui uwju t?,yes, anil uuitressing
it with the statements made
to- us, not by the natives but by
German soldiers and German officers,
we could reach but one conclusion,
which was that here, in such and
such a place, those in command had
said to the troops: 'Spare this town
and these people.' And there they
had said: 'Waste this town and
shoot these people.' And here the
troops had discriminatelv spared, and
there they had discriminatelv wasted,
in exact accord with the word of
their superiors." Irvin S. Cobb,
Speaking of Prussians, New York,
1917, pp. 32-34.
(To be continued.)
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THE LEVY.
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Total 19 mills
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