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Answer:First off, I believe we should start off by recognizing it was a war. Chaos reigned, and a soldier would be lucky to know what time it was on a good day. Secondly, Wrold War One took place almost a hundred years ago, which means records of this time period aren't exactly the greatest, unless they come from actual museums or institutions.

Now, to encourage young men to enlist and serve their country, a few white lies were spread over nations of German brutality towards the population of country it was occupying. Tales of Germans gouging out the eyes of civilians, cutting off the hands of teenage boys, raping and sexually mutilating women, giving children hand grenades to play with, bayoneting babies and the crucifixion of captured soldiers were common.1 If you notice however, throughout historical texts, the information of German atrocity always comes from a second or third source. Therefore, technically, we can never really be sure if incidents such as these actually happened.

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