1915 Persecution Of Six Million Jews Charged Against Russia

June 6, 1915 newspaper article by Herman Bernstein detailing charges that 6 million Jews are being persecuted in Russia.

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"If you could only see what has become of the
beautiful East Prussia, what the ruthless Russians have made of It Just ns If a
wild boar had been turned loose In a rich vineyard. What he can he devours and
the rest he must drag with him. And If he cannot do this he tramples unon all
the lovely vines and digs them tip by the 1 roots. When he Is done no one would
ever dream that a beautiful garden once grew them "No, even this Is not a
fair com parlson. It Is true tho Russians be haved like wild beasts. We had
enough outrages of our own to endure at their hands, but wo almost forgot , our
sorrows when, night after night, we saw hundreds of fires across the Prussian
border. Every evening the sky would bo turned Into a huge blazing sheet, Just
as If the whole j world were enveloped In flames. What , was not burned was
plundered. "They used to bring their booty over to Poland and sell It
here. The large, tine Prussian cows which cost at least 400 marks were sold for
IB rubles. Horses that surely were worth 1.000 marks the Cossacks nnd the
soldiers sold for 20 or 30 rubles. "Among the Russian soldiers there were
often good men who used to tell us, with tears In their eyes, of the ntrocltles
they had witnessed In East Prussia. They would say that what happened beggared
description. There, men were not going to war, but to plunder Many a poor woman
was robbed nnd left destitute with her little children. The unfortunate victims
were not allowed to leave the ruined cities. They could not even cross their
fields because the Russians would declare them spies and that meant they were
shot. "The results tf such accusations one con easily Imagine. Through the
c'ty of Neustadt droves of little children were driven In the most bitter
frosts. The soldiers beat with their guns those who were weak and could not
march quickly. Then, too, the soldiers are free to rob the property of the
Germans who are driven Into exile. Many of them even brag that they cut off the
fingers of German boys so that "they could not go to the front to help
their accursed Wllhelm.' One could soon grow mad from the stories the soldiers
told. Words fall me. The wounds are still unhealed. They wring my heart.
"A whole drove of soldiers and offi cers came, and filled our house and
our yard. They demanded ea;gs, butter, meat, &c. They won t take no'
for an answer. For them we nuif pro- vide everything. And when we place before
them on tbe table all the food that we can scrape together In the house we have
to taste e,erythlng first. "'You havent by any chance put poison In the
food, have you?' they cry. 'You false, treacherous spies! You are not above any
villainy. Just tasto It yourself first!' That Is thu thnnks we get for our
trouble. "When they slaughtered our sheep In the fall, nnd mother begged
them to leave a few, the soldier

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