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with stones, badly damaging it. A veritable rebellion, which doesn’t bode well for the discipline among these blokes! Even the relationship between our guards and their officers is a beauty! If the guards receive an order they don’t like, they either ignore it or else they bombard the officers with swear words, such as bastard, etc.
18/3/1916. Under the command of the German Crown Prince, a huge offensive against Verdun was launched, but so far the goal – the capture of Verdun – has not been achieved. The loss of human life must be horrendous given the enormous amount of artillery and human material [sic] assembled in a relatively narrow space. One could call
it mass murder but supposedly it could not be avoided after the Allies rejected our surely
reasonable terms for peace on March 13 in Washington. Thus the war will continue until one side will be completely destroyed. Let’s hope it’s not Germany because it would throw us back in our development and position in the world by at least 100