GERMAN WAR
Edited by Dana C. IV
versity; George C.
of Wisconsin, and
University oi
Issued by the Committee
Here is the testimony of another j
German soldier on the Eastern front: j
"Russian Poland, December 18, '14.}
"In the name of Christianity I;
send you these words.
"My conscience forces me as a
Christian German soldier to inform
you of these lines.
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VVOUUUeU nussiauo c**v/
with the bayonet according to orders.
"And Russians who have surrendered
are often shot down in masses
according to orders, in spite of their;
heart-rending prayers.
""In the hope that you, as the
representative of a Christian State:
will protest against this, I sign my-!
self,
"A German Soldier and Christian. I
"I would give my name and regi- j
ment, but these words could get me
court-martialed for divulging mili- j
tary secrets."
The third letter from the Western 1
front, shows the same horror of the,
system of which the writer was a'
witness.
"To the American Government, 1
Washington, U. S. A.
"Englishmen who have surrender- j
ed are shot down in small groups. j
With the French one is more con- ;
siderate. I ask whether men let
themselves be taken prisoner in order
to be disarmed and shot down afterwards?
Is that chivalry in battle?
It is no longer a secret among the
people; one hears everywhere that
few prisoners are taken; they are
shot down in small groups. They
say naively: 'We'flon't want any unnecessary
mouths to feed. Where
there is no one to enter complaint, j
there is no judge.' Is there no power J
in the world which can put an end to |
these murders and rescue the vie-1
tims? Where is Chrstianity? wnere
is right? Might is right.
"A Soldier and Man Who is Xo Barbarian/'
/
Many of the Germans, as has been
already indicated, do not believe the
reports-of the atrocities committed
by the Belgian civilians and refuse
to accept the system of frightfulness.
,
The Vorwarts, the leading socialist
paper, which has a very wide circle
of readers, has opposed the policy of
frightfulness. All' honor to its editors
who have so courageously opposed
the powerful military authority!
Its editorial, entitled "Our
Foes," published August 23, 1914,
reads as follows:
i. . "We wish to show ourselves hui,
mane and friendly towards those
whom the fortune of war has played
Into our hands as prisoners. But we
wish also to be humane towards our
foes on the field. V$e must fight
them. * * * But fighting does not
mean murdering. It does not mean
being barbarous. * * *
"What should one say when even
such an organ as the Deutsclies Offizier-Blatt
expresses its sympathy
with a demand that 'the beasts' who
are taken as francstoreurs should not
be killed but only wounded so that
Vnvu- mav then ho loft tn a fate 'which
makes any help impossible?' Or
; what should we say when the Deutsches
Offizier-Blatt states that 'a punitive
destruction even of whole regions'
cannot 'afford full recompense
for the bones of a single murdered
Pomeranian grenadier?' Those are
the desires of bloed-thirsty fanatics
and we are thoroughly ashamed of
ourselves because it is possible that
there are people among us who urge
V such things. Such disclosures in
themselves, even if they are pot followed
out, are likely to place our
fighting quite in the wrong before all
the world. * * * Let us show knightliness
even though we are of the proletariat.
Let us take such pains that
when the fight has finally been fought
it will also not be so difficult again
to work in common as brothers with
out* class associates on the other
side of the border.
On the following day, August 24,
1914, the Vorwarts returned to the
attack in an editorial "Against Bar''
* barism."
Some Germans Demand "Orgies of
Barbarism."
"One might, in the first place, possibly
believe that such a demand for
a bloody vengeance (against alleged
Belgian outrages) emanates from a
single disease-racked brain; but it
appears that whole groups among
certain classes who represent German
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barbarism and to devise a whole system
for the purpose of organizing 'a
war of revenge.'
"What of law and custom! Such
thoughts do not stir a 'great nation.'
Thus in a leading article of the Berliner
Neuests Nachrichten, the demand
is made that all the authorities
in Brussels?one, the second
Burgomaster, is generously excepted
?should be immediately seized and
subjected to trial in order to expiate
the wrongs which, according to fragmentary
and highly uncertain reports,
"were said to have been committed
by the people. They demand that
the captured city, should immediately
pay a fine of 500,000,000 marks; that
all stores of the conquered territory
be requisitioned without paying the
inhabitants a single penny for them."
Three years later, August 20, 191 7,
the Vorwarts quoted the following
passage from the Deutsche Tageszeitung:
Still Hold Some Opinions.
"We have a ring of politicians who
hold that might makes right (Machtpolitiker)
who despises the forces of
the inner life and believe that they
must eliminate all ethical points of
view * * * from foreign and social
^PRACTICES
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University
August C Krey,
' Minnesota
on Public Information
politics. For them, Germany of the
present and of the future is the
country of the Ivrupps and Borsigs,
of the Zeppelins and the U-boats.
Any idea of a connection Deiween
politics and morals is rejected and
any reference to the right of a moral
method of consideration is ridiculed
as delusion and sentimentality."
Naturally the reports of the atrocities
committed by the Germans and
the Emperor's declaration that the
war would henceforth assume a terrible
character (grausamen Charakter)
caused grave anxiety among the
Belgians. In order to avoid the danger
of reprisals, the Belgian government,
at the beginning of the invasion,
had every Belgian newspaper
publish each day the following noIWheatless,
Me
Days
Clothless, Sh
Days,
Ever since Adam and
together society and wi
we have clothing; but w:
tion of woolens and ol
mies of the world, clot
I ting scarce and nign.
have bought for months
Men's and I
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the largest line of clothii
advice is if you will n(
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I have ever carried in t
The Latest N<
At prices a little cheap<
been paying. I get new
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| tice on its first page, in large print:
"TO CIVILIAN'S.
! "The .Minister of the Interior advises
civilians in case the enemy
! should show himself in their dis!
trict:
! "Not to fight:
VTo utter no insulting or threatening
words:
! "To remain within their houses
and close the windows; so that it will
be impossible to allege that there
was any provocation;
"To evacuate any houses or isolated
hamlet which the soldiers may
occupy in order to defend themselves,
so that it cannot be alleged that civilians
have fired;
"An act of violence committed by a
single civilian would be a crime for
which the law provides arrest and
punishment. It is all the more reprehensible
in that it might serve as
a pretext for measures of oppression,
resulting in bloodshed or pillage, or
the massacre of the innocent population
with the women and children."
In the hope of arousing the sympathy
and securing the aid of the
neutral nations, the Beiglan government
appointed a committee to ascertain
the facts about the German
practices. The evidence collected by
the Belgian commissioners is detailed
and explicit, and their reports
give names, places, and dates. It is
not "possible, however, to include in
this pamphlet more than the folatless,
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j lowing summary of the charges they
j make against the Germans:
j "1. That thousands of unoffendj
ing civilians, including women and
children, were murdered by the Germans.
"2. That women had been outraged.
"3. That the custom of the German
soldiers immediately on entering
a town was to break into wineshops
and the cellars of private
houses and madden themselves with
drink.
"4. That German officers and soldiers
looted on a gigantic and systematic
scale, and, with the connivance
of the German authorities, sent back
a large part of the booty to Ger
many.
"5. That the pillage had been accompanied
by wanton destruction
and by bestial and sacriligious practices.
"6. That cities, towns, villages,
and isolated buildings were destroy- 1
ed.
"7. That in the course of such destruction
human brings were burnt
alive. I
"8. That there was a uniform
practice of taking hostages and
thereby rendering great numbers of
admittedly innocent people responsible
for the alleged wrongdoing of
others.
"9. That large numbers of civilian
men and women had been virtually
enslaved by the Germans, being
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