Wie Frankreich das Elsaß befreit (1917)

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1. Just like in Flanders, in Alsace, the towers of the houses of worship are the favored targets of French artillery.
2. More than one precious gem of Romanesque monastery architecture lies in ruins.
3.The House of Devotion - The hut of French sacrilege!
4. The roof of the peaceful sacristy - only charred rafters and hanging tiles remain.
5. A pious institution near the Alsace border housed several hundred unfortunate mentally ill individuals.
6. The enemy deliberately targeted the house of the unfortunate with their incendiary projectiles.
7. It was barely possible to rescue the insane inmates from the sea of flames.
8. Once again, French artillery reduced the collegiate church to rubble.
9. Only shattered walls with burnt windows remain of the residential building.
10. The trajectory of the projectiles systematically brought down the houses of the small border town.
11. ... until the cowardly shelling found its target in the Catholic church.
12. Organ and prayer stalls, along with fallen columns, fill the interior of the church, shattered by gunfire.
13. The enemy targeted the Protestant church as well, even though they hypocritically accused the German military leadership of shelling Reims, which was used as a platform for directing French fire.
14. The towns of the well-defended border lie close to the enemy.
15. No church remains untouched and open for silent acts of war prayer.
16. Amidst the debris in the fire zone, German soldiers' graves rise.
17. Continuously seeking defenseless targets, the enemy directed their fire at flourishing, open cities.
18. Their times are tough.
19. With shrapnel shots, he covered the winding alleys...
20. ... without heeding the "Red Cross" on the roof of the spinning mill, where German wounded lay in its halls.
21. Grenades against Alsatian cities, monasteries, churches, and field hospitals...
22. ... this is the French way of conducting war on the border of German Alsace, for whose "liberation" they claim to fight --!