GERMANY’S WAR ARMY
CAUSE OF COLLAPSE OFFICERS’ TREATMENT OF MEN. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, November 22. One of the most patent causes of the collapse of the German army is contained in the pending publication on the World war'by Commandant Cocltz, of the German General Staff. The writer publishes circulars issued by the Minister of War, also by Marshal Hindenburg, calling the attention of the officers of the various armies to gross insults and offensive behaviour towards the men.
Marshal Hijndenburg strongly reprehended the officers, and proceeded to point out that the soldiers not only suffered by dishonorable acts and humiliating insults, but the . knowledge thereof provoked the greatest discontent among the civilian population. The "War Minister’s •■admonitions to .life- officers stressed the fact that the soldiers had written bitterly complaining of their treatment. The Minister emphasised the Tact that the army was then constituted of educated citizens, worthy of different treatment than that hitherto accorded. German historians explained the defeat qf_ the armies by declaring that the civilian front rank broke.
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Evening Star, Issue 19722, 24 November 1927, Page 6
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