(Guards) Grenadier Regiment No. 100, Officer of Court III.
Present:
Lieutenant of Reserve BANDEL, as Officer of the Court.
Acting-Sergeant-Major RANKE, as Clerk of the Military Court.
GUIGNICOURT, _January 9th, 1915_.
By order there appeared as witness:
Non-commissioned Officer Martin, 10th Company (Guards) Grenadier
Regiment No. 100, who, after having been warned to speak the truth,
made the following statement:
As to Person: My name is Otto Kurt Martin, 22 years old; Protestant.
As to Case: Concerning the article "The incredible atrocities of the
German soldiers," Martin made the following statement:
Inhabitants of the town of Dinant were only shot after it had been
conclusively established that they had treacherously fired at us from
the houses. Moreover, there was firing from houses which displayed the
Red Cross. I did not see any mutilated inhabitants. I likewise do not
know of any cruelties or crimes by our troops. I did not see that our
troops were treated by a Belgian doctor. On the contrary, I noticed
that wounded inhabitants were treated by German doctors and bandaged by
our military non-commissioned officers. I know nothing of the remainder
of the incidents mentioned in the article. I have nothing further to
add.
Read over, approved, signed.
Signed: KURT MARTIN.
The witness was thereupon sworn.
Signed: BANDEL, Lieutenant and Officer of the Court.
Signed: RANKE, Acting-Sergeant-Major and Clerk of the Military Court.