47 and 48. The commandants of the 11th and 4th detachments operating against the Serbians, who ordered their soldiers to annihilate everything Serbian.
49 and 50. Commandant Zerfert, of the 25th regiment, and Captain Zfail, of the 37th Austrian regiment, who caused houses in Serbia to be fired.
51 and 52. Captain Kozda, of the 79th regiment, and Captain Vouitch, of the 21st Austrian regiment, who treated every Serbian soldier on the third conscript list as a franc-tireur and had him shot.
53. Captain Zirgow, who authorised the pillage of Albert in France.
54. The German officer, Walter Bloem, who was entrusted with the task of making an inquiry in Belgium (see the Cologne Gazette of the 10th February, 1915), and who confessed without any sense of shame that all that had happened was part of a system, the principle of which was that “the whole community to which a culprit belonged must pay the penalty, and that the innocent must suffer in their stead, not because a crime has been committed, but in order that a crime may not be committed again.”
55. Lieutenant Bertich, 29th Austro-Hungarian regiment operating against the Serbs, who killed at Lasnitza seven innocent peasants.
56. Lieutenant Eberlein, who, in the Münchener Neueste Nachrichten told the story of the monstrous treachery to which he resorted to get into Saint Dié—viz. using civilians as a screen for his troops.
The above are German generals and officers whose names are known to us. There are many others. But the impossibility of naming them all does not prevent us from holding up to the execration of the civilised world, by printing their names here, those whom the reports supplied to us have mentioned.
In addition to the two emperors, there are two marshals, four generals, six princes and nobles, five colonels, sixteen commandants and majors, thirteen other subaltern officers, written on the picture of horror, which we have sketched, and of which they and the whole of the German people are the individual and responsible authors.