This order to go into effect before the first of
April, 1916.
FOR THE STELLVERT, GENERAL KOMMANDO RADECKE, MAJOR.
Finally, it was only on the ninth of October, 1917, that the
Strassburg _Neue Zeitung_ announced the abolition of the special
postal control to which the soldiers from Alsace-Lorraine were
submitted at the front.
It is but just [says the _Freie Presse_ on that occasion]
that the exceptional measures taken against the soldiers
from Alsace-Lorraine be abolished at last. Among these
measures we consider the interdiction still in force for a
man to return to his native town. And [the same newspaper
adds] from the moment that the bravery of our soldiers from
Alsace-Lorraine is vaunted everywhere, it is absolutely
wrong to reward them with scorn and insults.
In the notice from G. Q. G. for the twenty-fifth of November, 1917,
are the details gathered from the Alsatian prisoners themselves of the
treatment their compatriots endure in the German Army.
On the twenty-second of last June, all the Alsatians received orders
to present themselves at the F. R. D. of their division, where they
were received by the Vize Sergeant, flanked by two guards.
The former said to them:
"What! You have not yet laid aside your accoutrements; traitors,
deserters, scoundrels, rascals.
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