The Kingdom of Serbia: Infringements of the Rules and Laws of War Committed By the Austro-Bulgaro-Germans; Letters of a Criminologist on the Serbian Macedonian Front (Classic Reprint)

As a matter of fact, one of the belligerent groups, not content with fighting the armies of its enemies, has considered it necessary besides to use every possible means of terrorizing the enemy civil population, which nevertheless ought to have been protected by the laws and conventions signed by the Central Powers and their A llies. But the Germans and their friends have snapped their fingers at these laws and conventions. They look upon them as so many scraps of paper. Necessity knows no law! said the Germans, A ustro-H ungarians, Bulgars, and Turks, and without scruple they have massacred their prisoners and the civil population of the countries invaded by them, pillaged, bled, and devastated occupied countries and deported their inhabitants without regard to age or sex ;they have bombarded open towns, employed projectiles and other means of destruction condemned as barbarous and strictly forbidden by all conventions, and so have rendered themselves guilty of the violation of all that we had deemed sacred. At the request of the Royal Serbian Government, and since the beginning of the world war I have been engaged in recording, as far as possible, all the infringements of the laws and conventions of war and of humanity committed by the enemies of the countries of the venerable King Peter.
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