Reply #3: What do you actually know about Kuperstock, beyond the claims made in today's Ha'aretz article?

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Before the Great War, there had been substantial military controversy regarding control of Warsaw: at the time of the August 1914 Russian army occupation, loyalties in the city may have been quite divided. The Russian army apparently suffered from inadequate supply lines, and there were two major 1914 battles for control of the area: the German attack beginning in late September and the subsequent Russian counter-attack. Thus, by the last part of 1914, the situation in Warsaw may have rather unpleasant, and any prior existing pro-Prussian and pro-Russian loyalties may simply have been hardened

To judge the behavior of an individual in this context, one should like to know a bit more than is claimed in a single newspaper report decades later

http://www.earlyaviator.com.nyud.net:8090/archive/image4/WARSAW.jpg
... From August to October, 1914, the Z-4 worked under Hindenburg. Captain Quast would set out with machine guns and the crude bombs of that time. Flying only a few hundred feet over the Russian troops he would engage in a pitched battle in which the soldiers on the ground had a huge target. Once he returned with no less than 300 holes in the gas cells. He bombed the forts at Warsaw and several times accounted for important railway junctions near the Polish city ... The marshal was planning his great offensive of 1915. He requested that as many airships as possible be sent him for the campaign that summer, and in March was given three, my former Sachsen, then under Captain George, the Z-11 and the LZ-34. All three raided Warsaw, Grodno, Kovno and other fortresses, but the Z-11 was wrecked during an emergency landing that May and a few days later the LZ-34 was destroyed while being taken out of a hangar in a cross-wind ...
The Zeppelins
The Development of the Airship, with the Story of the Zepplins Air Raids in the World War
CHAPTER IV
WITH HINDENBURG ON THE EASTERN FRONT
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