REPORT of the 8th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178. on the fighting
round Dinant on August 21st and 23rd, 1914.
_February 14th, 1915._
Private Jentsch states in general the same as the witness,
Non-commissioned Officer Macher,[2] except that he actually only saw
a great pool of blood on a floor; the dead German soldier, of whom he
had heard, had already been concealed. He does not now know to which
company he belonged. On the same day, according to his statement, a
further batch of four civilians were shot because they had attacked a
sentry of Infantry Regiment No. 182. These people were fetched out of
an underground passage. The order was given by Lieutenant Tränker.
[Footnote 2: See App. 29.]
In the military school about 400 men in civilian clothes were guarded.
These were well looked after, and were also later on allowed to receive
their relations. On the fourth day we were relieved by Reserve Infantry
Regiment No. 106.
Signed: LUCIUS, 1st Lieutenant and Company Leader.
_Deposition._
Present:
Lieutenant THOMAS, as Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major LANGE, as Clerk of the Military Court.
There appeared as witness Private Jentsch, who, after the reading over
of the preceding report, made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Karl Albin Richard Jentsch. I am 22 years old;
Protestant; private, 8th Company, Infantry Regiment No. 178.
As to Case: I maintain the correctness of my statements.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: JENTSCH.
Signed: THOMAS. Signed: LANGE.