, that it is more easy for the former to indulge in his
temper without fear of consequences. I do not think that the atrocities
perpetrated by the Germans in Belgium, the true ones as they came to my
knowledge, and not the false ones which have been spread by the Press,
have proved in any way that the Germans have passed the bounds of all
that has been known in previous wars, and have deserved to be banned and
thrust outside the pale of humanity.
In this article I have endeavoured to give a fair account of my journey
and to relate facts I have witnessed as they have impressed themselves
upon my mind. I have done so not to pass judgment upon some of my
fellow-creatures at such times of overheated passions, but merely in
order to present to Socialists and Pacifists the enormity of their task
after the war, such as I have felt it over there.
It is in the hearts of the people that we shall have to work, to bring
to them seeds of love and fraternal goodwill in the place of the weeds
of hatred and ignorance which years of war and horrors will have left in
the souls of many. Everywhere, but mostly in the countries which have
been devastated by the war, be it in France, Belgium, Serbia, Poland or
East Prussia and Galicia, it is in the hearts of the majority of the
civilian population that we shall meet with the hardest task, but we
must work so that our faith be so great as really to move mountains.
INDEX
_Where there are several references and one is of chief importance, that
one is printed in heavy figures._
PAGE.
Accusation, Ease of, 204-5
Achim, 136
_Aktion, Die_, 231
Alexandra Palace, Internment at, 103
Altdamm, 8
American Civil War, Prisoners in, 123-4
Anderson, Chandler, 79
Annexation
--Delbrueck-Dernburg-Wolff Memorial Against, 176
--German Socialist Party Manifesto Against, 175
Assistance Agency, German, for Prisoners, 12, =133-142=
Assistance to British Subjects in Germany, 212-21
Atrocities
--and Credulity, 31, 38
--German, 264, 265
--Unfounded Story of, 156
_Auskunfts- und Hilfsstelle fuer Deutsche im Ausland und Auslaender in
Deutschland_, 133-4
Austin, L. J., 33, =37=
Austria, a Prisoner in, 26
_Avanti_, 223
Bad Blenhorst, 48, 57
Baden, Prisoners in, 60, 61
_Basler Nachrichten_, 66
Bathing Facilities
--in British Camps, 65
--in German Camps, 11, 13, 15, 48, 50
Bath-Chair Woman and English Lady, 213
Batochina, 150-2
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