Get into the shelter quick where you
can put up nine additional supports for the roof and where you can
kick the bucket at your ease."
Since some of the Alsatians declared that, having received nothing to
eat or to drink, they could not work, a lieutenant, who was summoned
by the adjutant, ran up with his riding whip and, making one of them
step forward, beat him until he lost consciousness.
Later on another lieutenant ordered the Vize Sergeant to "train the
Alsatians well. They are all robbers and traitors."
All these facts proclaim in an undeniable manner that the soldiers
from Alsace-Lorraine are not treated like ordinary citizens by the
German Army, but like foreigners temporarily under the domination of
Germany.
_The Sequestration of Property_
For a "German" country, Alsace-Lorraine seems to have a great number
of landowners who are French, if one is to judge by the sequestrations
and confiscations with which the authorities have been so desperately
busy for three years.
In fact the local newspapers contain lists of sequestrations that are
almost as long as the lists of deserters.
And these confiscations apply not only to the landowners who live in
France. A large number have been pronounced against inhabitants of
Alsace-Lorraine who live abroad.
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