After that there was fighting such as I hope never to know again.
The Germans did not seem to have been taken by surprise at all.

They had made ample preparation.

And as for holding us in contempt, they gave no evidence of that.

Their wounded were unwilling to surrender because their officers had given out we would torture prisoners.

We had to pounce on them, and cut their buttons off and slit their boots, so that they must use both hands to hold their trousers up and could not run.