Unfortunately I must state the fact that the rank and file will not return better men than they were when they started. They have seen too much of ru… - Alfred von Waldersee

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Unfortunately I must state the fact that the rank and file will not return better men than they were when they started. They have seen too much of ruthlessness, brutality, robbery, executions etc., and have come into contact with altogether too many bad characters in the foreign contingents.