These last are conducive to the quickest end of the war;
they are, if you consider matters carefully, the most humane
methods.... Prisoners may be killed in case of necessity if
there is no other means of guarding them properly.... The
presence of women, children, old men, the sick and the
wounded in a beseiged city can hasten the place's fall; in
consequence it would be very foolish of the beseiger to
renounce this advantage.... They will force the inhabitants
to furnish information concerning their army, military
resources and secrets of their country. The majority of
writers in all nations condemn this usage. _It will be used
none the less_--very regretfully--for military reasons.
Finally, on the volume's last page, is found this extraordinary maxim:
"Any wrong that the war demands, however great it may be, is
allowed."
Therefore the horrors which the Germans performed from the war's very
beginning, which provoked an expression of great indignation from all
the civilized world, were not perpetrated in a moment of orgy or
madness. They have been perpetrated coldly, deliberately,
intentionally.
Besides, not only the officers and the common soldiers have been
taught to make war in this barbarous fashion.
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