Present:
Lieutenant FRANCKE, Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major LANGE, Military Clerk of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major (Deputy Officer) Bauer states:
My name is Kurt Bauer. I am 24 years old; Protestant; now
Acting-Sergeant-Major of Reserve, attached to 6th Company, Infantry
Regiment No. 178; in civil life Cand. Arch.
As my company leader had been fired at from a factory in Leffe my
platoon received the order to clear the factory and the houses standing
in the rear. I advanced with my detachment and plainly saw that we
were heavily fired on from roof windows and skylights in the roofs of
the factory and the houses, as well as from bushes on the heights, by
civilians armed with pistols. We stormed the houses and set them on
fire. I was also witness to the fact that we were even fired on from
the monastery, although the Geneva flag was hoisted above it.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: KURT BAUER.
The witness was sworn.
Signed: FRANCKE. Signed: LANGE.