Book contents
- Surviving the Great War
- Other titles in the Australian Army History Series
- Surviving the Great War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on casualty statistics
- Glossary
- Map
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Raising the white flag
- Chapter 2 The reciprocity principle
- Chapter 3 Giving the game away
- Chapter 4 Saving lives
- Chapter 5 Challenging the Holzminden illusion
- Chapter 6 Well fed and plenty of freedom
- Chapter 7 Hun haunted?
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Chapter 2 - The reciprocity principle
Respecting and abrogating wartime agreements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 November 2019
Book contents
- Surviving the Great War
- Other titles in the Australian Army History Series
- Surviving the Great War
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures, maps and tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A note on casualty statistics
- Glossary
- Map
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 Raising the white flag
- Chapter 2 The reciprocity principle
- Chapter 3 Giving the game away
- Chapter 4 Saving lives
- Chapter 5 Challenging the Holzminden illusion
- Chapter 6 Well fed and plenty of freedom
- Chapter 7 Hun haunted?
- Conclusion
- Book part
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Not all captured Australians survived the tumult of battle. After the 7th Brigade’s failed attack on the Windmill at Pozières on 28 July 1916, a German officer approached an Australian Lewis gunner nursing a bullet wound to his leg. ‘You are the Machine Gunner?’ asked the officer. ‘Yes, sir,’ the man replied. Without hesitation, the officer drew his automatic pistol and shot the man through the heart and the head, killing him instantly. ‘That’s the way to deal with English swine.’
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- Surviving the Great WarAustralian Prisoners of War on the Western Front 1916–18, pp. 40 - 65Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019