Signed: Dachsel. Signed: Steiger.
C. App. 68.
(Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100, Officer of Court III.
Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve Bandel, as Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major Ranke, as Clerk of the Military Court.
Guignicourt, January 9th, 1915.
By order there appeared as witness:
Non-commissioned Officer Martin, 10th Company (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100, who, after having been warned to speak the truth, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Otto Kurt Martin, 22 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: Concerning the article "The incredible atrocities of the German soldiers," Martin made the following statement:
Inhabitants of the town of Dinant were only shot after it had been conclusively established that they had treacherously fired at us from the houses. Moreover, there was firing from houses which displayed the Red Cross. I did not see any mutilated inhabitants. I likewise do not know of any cruelties or crimes by our troops. I did not see that our troops were treated by a Belgian doctor. On the contrary, I noticed that wounded inhabitants were treated by German doctors and bandaged by our military non-commissioned officers. I know nothing of the remainder of the incidents mentioned in the article. I have nothing further to add.