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The list shows the losses calculated by a father and his two sons, amounting to a total of 19,500 francs.
Excerpt from the report:
“A witness, repeatedly beaten by the Servians who asked him why the population had fled, saw them set fire to the houses; only one was saved, and on it some one had scrawled in chalk the word Magatsine, to show that it was a food depot. Other witnesses saw the soldiers carrying off stolen furniture, carpets, woolen stuff prepared for carpet making, etc. Some peasants who thought that we were a government commission, sent to inventory their losses, brought us long lists of them. Here are some of the papers which we kept for information, after explaining to the villagers the mistake they made: ”
Source: Carnegie Report on the Balkan Wars, Pg. 139 https://www.pollitecon.com/html/ebooks/Carnegie-Report-on-the-Balkan-Wars.pdf
The report was published in Washington, D.C. in 1914 by Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A group of international university professors and other prominent individuals (including 3 Nobel prize winners) set out to catalog the numerous violations of international conventions and war crimes committed in the Balkan Wars.
No one went “Ah yea my gran’s solid Gold mirror was shattered in the war, even a partial refund would be lovely”.