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CHAPTER XI
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THE MURDER, TORTURE AND VIOLATION1 OF WOMEN IN INVADED TERRITORY
The present and following chapters will contain the most abominable2 part of this indictment3. We shall read the story of outrages4 of which women have been made victims by the German scoundrels. Were not these outrages, established as they are by certain reports, and confirmed by confessions6 which the Germans themselves have inadvertently made, the result of the unbridled instincts of an army in a state of delirium7? We should like to think so, but the details to hand with regard to the circumstances under which these acts were performed compel us to recognise that something more is involved in them. They reveal the presence of cruelty and thirst for innocent blood in the perpetrators of these murders and acts of violence.
Crimes committed against octogenarian old women seem to issue from a special hatred8, directed against those who gave birth to their enemies of to-day. The number of acts of violation committed by these invaders10 proves that there is inherent in the German mind a peculiar11 contempt for all human laws, a regular bestiality, a cynical12 audacity13, which, if the reins14 are given to it, borders on madness.
In the performance of these abominable acts the Germans showed no trace of humanity. Their thoughts[105] were
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indictment
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invader
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reins
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incapable
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wholesale
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refinements
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refinement
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organisation
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massacre
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thigh
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assassinated
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corps
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corpses
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verge
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exhaustion
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massacres
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| 大屠杀( massacre的名词复数 ); 惨败 | |
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invoked
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civilians
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remains
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brutal
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humane
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tremor
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bruised
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cemetery
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coffin
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abdomen
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noted
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outskirts
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deposed
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swarming
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| 密集( swarm的现在分词 ); 云集; 成群地移动; 蜜蜂或其他飞行昆虫成群地飞来飞去 | |
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chateau
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killing
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captivity
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pretext
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authenticity
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invalided
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insanity
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infantry
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regiment
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lust
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obsessed
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morbid
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outraged
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perversity
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brutality
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amazement
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abortion
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intervention
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hideous
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battalion
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innocence
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