As to Case: Before we marched through Dinant on August 23rd I saw in a cabbage field near Dinant the body of a Saxon Jäger with a charred face lying on his back. He lay in the middle of the field, not by the road. I did not notice whether his feet and arms were tied.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Otto Albert Oehmigen.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Dachsel. Signed: Steiger.
C. App. 78.
Prouvais, February 24th, 1915.
By order of Field Artillery Regiment No. 12 there appeared as witness this day Captain von Lippe of the Light Munitions Columns, 2nd Division, 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, in order to be examined on oath regarding the occurrences in Dinant. Captain von Lippe stated:
As to Person: My name is Fritz von Lippe. I am 40 years old; Protestant; estate-tenant by calling, attached to the Light Munitions Column of the 2nd Division, Field Artillery Regiment No. 12.
As to Case: On August 23rd, 1914, behind the firing position of the 2nd Division, 1st Field Artillery Regiment No. 12, I saw the bodies of a rifleman and a Jäger. One had his eyes gouged out, and the other lay half burnt under a heap of straw with hands and feet tied together.