When the Germans take a town they mark it with their own mark, as cattlemen in Texas used to mark a captured maverick; after which to all intents it becomes German.

We halted a moment here.
"That's French enough for you," said the young officer who was riding with us, turning in his seat to speak--"putting up a monument to glorify three francs-tireurs.

In Germany the people would not be allowed to do such a thing.

But it is not humanly conceivable that they would have such a wish.

We revere soldiers who die for the Fatherland, not men who refuse to enlist when the call comes and yet take up arms to make a guerrilla warfare." Which remark, considering the circumstances and other things, was sufficiently typical for all purposes, as I thought at the time and still think.