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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lies, Lies, Lies. In smashing contradiction of many a still prevalent belief, Laborite Ponsonby sets out to demonstrate: 1) That, generally speaking, "German atrocities" were extremely rare; and, specifically, German soldiers in Belgium and France never cut off the hand or hands of a single child; 2) That Allied propagandists created and attributed to Wilhelm II the reference to "England's contemptible little army" which became the most effective British recruiting slogan of the entire War; 3) That the sinking of the Lusitania was justified by the fact that she carried arms; 4) That German submarine commanders...
...fought in France during 1914 proudly refer to themselves collectively, as "The Old Contemptibles." This they do because on Sept. 24, 1914 they read in the British Expeditionary Force Routine Orders of the day that on Aug. 19, 1914 the Kaiser declared, in a General Order issued from German Headquarters, Aix-la-Chapelle...
...Royal and Imperial command that you [German soldiers] ... exterminate first the treacherous English, walk over General French's contemptible little army...
...completely blast this British fabrication Laborite Ponsonby had adduced two proofs: 1) The indisputable fact that German headquarters were never at Aix-la-Chapelle; and 2) The statement of British General Sir Frederick Maurice who, after the War, had German files and archives thoroughly ransacked without finding a single German newspaper or document indicating that Wilhelm never used the phrase "contemptible little army...
Sims on Atrocities. Conveniently for Mr. Ponsonby the U. S. Navy's Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims has now declared: "There exists no authentic report of cruelties ever having been committed by the commander or crew of a German submarine. The Press reports about cruelties were only meant for propaganda purposes...