For example, they always told us they were sure we were going to win the war.

They always said they were glad to be taken prisoners.

When they were married men, they said they had five children and so appealed to our pity.

People do not realize even yet how very thorough the Germans were in everything that they thought was going to bring them the mastership of the world.

When a German soldier saw the game was up, he surrendered at once and thus was preserved to fight for his country in the next war.
In the stable of the farm, I found many seriously wounded men lying on the straw, and I took down messages which they were sending to their relatives at home.