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Quote mark   The newspapers informed us that German soldiers crucified Belgian babies. Stories of that kind were taken for granted; to have disbelieved them would have been unpatriotic. Quote mark

Lt. S. Sassoon, in 'Memoirs of an Infantry Officer'

 

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