human
Before 4 o'clock all Belgian and French soldiers are to be delivered up as prisoners of war. Citizens who do not obey this will be condemned to hard labor for life in Germany. At 4 o'clock a rigorous inspection of all houses will be made. _Every soldier found will be shot._ * * * _The streets will be held by German guards, who will hold ten hostages for each street. These hostages will be shot if there is any trouble in that street._ * * * A crime against the German Army will compromise the existence of the whole town of Namur _and every one in it_.
gpt
But why the exception? If it be permitted to destroy one life for the welfare of the military administration of Belgium, why stop at two? If the innocent living are to be sacrificed, why spare the unborn? The exception itself shows that the rigor of military law must have some limitation, and that its iron rigor must be softened by a discretion dictated by such considerations of chivalry and magnanimity as have hitherto been observed by all civilized nations. If the victim of yesterday had been an
human
Dr. Zimmermann suggests that her judges and executioners would have spared her, but no such exception can be found in the Prussian military code.
gpt
It is not so nominated in the bond,