DOCUMENTS. Lot of 10 notices of executions of French soldiers or civilians, some of them mayors of their commune, from the town hall of La Fère (Aisne) in 1916, from the 27. Mob. Etappen Kommandantur of the 1st German Army. These executions of isolated soldiers behind the German lines follow the publication at the end of 1914 of an order threatening death as a spy any soldier isolated by the fighting found dressed in civilian clothes in the occupied sector, 32 X 24 cm on average. Rare. ABE

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