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Jeffrey McNeill, Senior Lecturer in Resource & Environmental Planning, Massey University

Less than illustrious: remembering the Anzacs means also not forgetting some committed war crimes

Captured German trenches near Messines, June 1917. Daily Herald Archive / Getty Images

It was observed […] that the English had slain wounded and captured German prisoners.

So reads a disturbing war diary entry of the Bavarian 18th Regiment from June 7 1917, quoting one Schütze (Rifleman) Jakob Eickert of the 2. Machine Gun Company.

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