(a) Extract from the Diary of a German Soldier forwarded by the Extraordinary Commission of Enquiry instituted by the Russian Government.
“When the offensive becomes difficult we gather together the Russian prisoners and hunt them before us towards their compatriots, while we attack the latter at the same time. In this way our losses are sensibly diminished.
“We cannot but make prisoners. Each Russian soldier when made prisoner will now be sent in front of our lines in order to be shot by his fellows.”
(b) Extract from a Diary of a German Soldier of the 13th Regiment, 13th Division, VIIth Corps captured by the Fifth (French) Army and reproduced in the First (British) Army Summary No. 95.
December 19th, 1914.—“The sight of the trenches and the fury, not to say bestiality, of our men in beating to death the wounded English affected me so much that, for the rest of the day, I was fit for nothing.”
(c) Contents of a Letter found on a Prisoner of the 86th Regiment, but written by Johann Wenger (10th Company Body Regiment, 1st Brigade, 1st Division I.A.C. Bav.) dated 16th March, 1915, Peronne, and addressed to a German Girl.
(After promising to send a ring made out of a shell.) “It will be a nice souvenir for you from a German warrior who has been through everything from the start and has shot and bayoneted so many Frenchmen, and I have bayoneted many women. During the fight at Batonville [?Badonviller] I bayoneted seven (7) women and four (4) young girls in five (5) minutes. We fought from house to house and these women fired on us with revolvers; they also fired on the captain too, then he told me to shoot them all—but I bayoneted them and did not shoot them, this herd of sows, they are worse than the men.”
(d) Extracts from the Diary of Musketeer Rehbein, II., 55th Reserve Infantry Regiment (2nd Company), 26th Reserve Infantry Brigade, 2nd Guard Reserve Division, X. Reserve Corps.
(This diary was captured during the recent operations at Loos, and forwarded to Professor Morgan by the Head-quarters Staff.[94])
August 16th (1914). On the march towards Louvain.—“Several citizens and the curé have been shot under martial law, some not yet buried—still lying where they were executed, for every one to see. Pervading stench of dead bodies. The curé is said to have incited the inhabitants to ambush and kill the Germans.”