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Updated: May 16, 2025
General von Roeder, one of the noblest of the German officers in Napoleon's army a facsimile of one of his letters is given in Holzhausen's book says about the murderous 7th. of December: "Pilgrims of the Grand Army, who had withstood many a severe frost indeed, dropped like flies, and of those who were well nourished, well clothed many of these being of the reserve corps having but recently come from Wilna to join the retreating army, countless numbers fell exactly like the old exhausted warriors who had dragged themselves from Moscow to this place."
Grenadiers, sitting around a fire, had pity on him and tried to relieve his sufferings. Many such examples are enumerated in Holzhausen's book. Our highest admiration is due to the conduct of the brave troops of the rear guard who fought the Russians, who sacrificed themselves for the sake of the whole, and, like at Krasnoe and at the Beresina, for their disbanded comrades.
Beating with the kantchou was nothing unusual. A Weimaranian musician, Theuss, has described some guileful tortures practiced on the prisoners, which are so revolting that I dare not write them. They are given in Holzhausen's book.
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