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Updated: May 22, 2025
I regretfully sighed that I would go back to Berlin and get a pass, and retracing my steps to the station I bought a ticket. A soldier and an Unteroffizier were stationed near the box in which stood the uniformed woman who punches tickets. The Unteroffizier looked at me sharply, "No train for an hour and a half," he said.
They read: Captain German Army Died 1916 Unknown R. I. P. Unteroffizier German Army Died 1916 Unknown R.I.P. The next evening we were relieved by the -th Brigade, and once again returned to rest billets. Upon arriving at these billets we were given twenty-four hours in which to clean up.
A sergeant and four Stretcher-bearers went out in front and soon returned, carrying two limp bodies. Down in the dugout, in the flickering light of three candles, we saw that they were two German officers, one a captain and the other an unteroffizier, a rank one grade higher than a sergeant-major, but below the grade of a lieutenant.
The Captain's face had been almost completely torn away by the bomb's explosion. The Unteroffizier was alive, breathing with difficulty. In a few minutes he opened his eyes and blinked in the glare of the candles. The pair had evidently been drinking heavily, for the alcohol fumes were sickening and completely pervaded the dugout.
The brutality of German generals was not worse than that of the Unteroffizier or the foreman of works. In England there was no traditional hatred of Germany, but for some years distrust and suspicions, which had been vented in the newspapers, with taunts and challenges, stinging the pride of Germans and playing into the hands of the Junker caste.
The average Britisher in confinement in Germany is under the care of an oldish guard, such as Heiny of the Landsturm, but the immediate authority is often a man of the notorious Unteroffizier type, whose cruelty to the German private is well known, and whose treatment of the most hated enemy can be imagined.
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