Acting-Sergeant-Major (Deputy Officer) Bauer states:
My name is Kurt Bauer. I am 24 years old; Protestant; now Acting-Sergeant-Major of Reserve, attached to 6th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178; in civil life Cand. Arch.
As my company leader had been fired at from a factory in Leffe my platoon received the order to clear the factory and the houses standing in the rear. I advanced with my detachment and plainly saw that we were heavily fired on from roof windows and skylights in the roofs of the factory and the houses, as well as from bushes on the heights, by civilians armed with pistols. We stormed the houses and set them on fire. I was also witness to the fact that we were even fired on from the monastery, although the Geneva flag was hoisted above it.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Kurt Bauer.
The witness was sworn.
Signed: Francke. Signed: Lange.
C. App. 33.
Extract from the Report of Operations, Infantry Regiment No. 103.
August 23rd, 1914.