"Crucified Soldiers" Topic

"During the retreat from Le Cateau in August 1914, rumours began circulating that the German Army had crucified members of the British Expeditionary Force. However, these accounts were never confirmed by witnesses and the British public tended to concentrate on other stories about German atrocities.

On 10th May, 1915, The Times reported: "Last week a large number of Canadian soldiers wounded in the fighting round Ypres arrived at the base hospital at Versailles. They all told the story of how one of their officers had been crucified by the Germans. He had been pinned to a wall by bayonets thrust through his hands and feet, another bayonet had then been driven through his throat, and, finally, he was riddled with bullets. The wounded Canadians said that the Dublin Fusiliers had seen this done with their own eyes, and that they had heard the officers of the Dublin Fusiliers talking about it."

The following day The Toronto Star published an interview with C. J. Clayton, who was serving with the British Red Cross. He told the story of how Captain R. A. Allen of the 5th Canadian Battalion had told him before he died of his wounds that he had witnessed the crucifixion of a Canadian sergeant by the German Army in France: "Allen went on to declare that he and a medical officer, major, and others all signed a sworn statement attesting the truth of a detailed record of the crucifixion. A Canadian sergeant was tied up by the arms and legs to a tree and pierced sixty times by German bayonets."…"
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.. and they were probably eating Belgian babies while they did it.

This caused a real problem in WW2, when news of the Nazis atrocities started to appear, and remember for the British they had a number of soldiers murdered by the SS in France in 1940, many people thought that it was just the old WW1 propaganda again.