At that time I was platoon leader in the 4th Company.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: Florey, Lieutenant and Regimental Adjutant.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: Oeser, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: Lippmann, Acting-Sergeant-Major
and Clerk of the Military Court.
C. App. 87.
The Trenches, January 12th, 1915.
By Regimental Order, Chief Surgeon of the Reserve, Dr. Marx, Assistant Surgeon of the 2nd Battalion, 1st Grenadier Regiment (Guards) No. 100, appears, and, being warned to speak the whole truth, makes the following deposition:
As to Person: My name is Karl Theodor Hans Marx. I was born on April 3rd, 1878, in Döbeln (Saxony); Evangelical-Lutheran; Senior Surgeon of the Reserve, 1st (Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100.
As to Case: I also extended my medical activity during the whole of the day to the wounded inhabitants of Dinant. In one case I treated a young girl with a shot wound in the head, and allowed her a separate room in the house where I had set up my place for dressing-station, so that her parents could be with her. As towards the evening that part of the town in which my hospital lay came under heavy artillery fire, I had the girl carried to a safer part of the town. This was in the street where the town gaol of Dinant is situated. The wounded girl, in consequence of her severe injury, lay at the point of death. In a column of inhabitants which was being sent across the Meuse was a clergyman, whom I recognised as such by his clothes. I begged him to take charge of her, and was witness how he gave her absolution. I was present the whole day (August 23rd, 1914) in Dinant, and did not notice any excesses on the part of the German soldiers.