We were very surprised to seem them walking. We had never seen that before. The officers went in front. I noticed one of them walking calmly, carrying a walking stick. When we started firing we just had to load and reload. They went down in their hundreds. You didn't have to aim. We just fired into them. ![Quote mark](aanhalen.gif)
German soldier in his diary, after the Battle of Loos, September 1915
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