Deposition.
By order of the Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prince George" No. 108 there appeared as witness Rifleman Körner. Warned to speak the whole truth, he made the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Artur Hugo Körner. I am 21 years old; of the Evangelical-Lutheran faith; glass-cutter by trade; now rifleman, 11th Company, Rifle (Fusilier) Regiment "Prince George" No. 108.
As to Case: I belonged to a patrol of twelve men led by Lieutenant Gauser and Berger with orders to arrest civilians in Dinant who might take up arms against the Germans. From a building in course of erection we observed that civilians were firing on us from a house. We surrounded the house, forced an entrance, and arrested about six male civilians. All had firearms, but no military badge or uniform. Two of them were young people about eighteen years old, another an older man with white hair. I know nothing of cruelties having been perpetrated by German soldiers on the inhabitants.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Körner.
The witness was duly sworn.
Signed: Lossow, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Schubert, Acting-Sergeant-Major
and Clerk of the Military Court.
C. App. 16.
Present:
1st Lieutenant Grau, as Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major Limbäcker, as Clerk of the Court.