There is an abundant crop of stories of atrocities perpetrated by the Germans—children and women shot in ould blood, and so on. It may well be that similar stories of the French are being circulated in the German newspapers; in fact judging from statements made by German prisoners and entries in notebooks found on dead German soldiers, the rank and file have been deceived by their officers into the belief that the French are savages and always shoot or torture their prisoners. The ignorant private naturally infers that as there is shooting to be done he had better do it first.
There is an account from Swiss sources of a German dragoon who, itr
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