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Defining interpersonal violence from 1914 to 1918War testimonies were a mass phenomena in most countries at war and played a major cultural role during the conflict. Writers and poets, key figures in the narration of the ongoing war, won legitimacy by being at the front and fighting the war.Each country had its own narrative form : poetry, story or novel. But an intermediate literary genre arose everywhere that was both novel and story. These texts became means of communication between the front and rear lines and contributed to forging “red hot” war representations.The figure of the hero, the martyr or the victim, could hardly coexist with the brute and the soldier that became a savage. That is why extreme brutality was often slandered on the most absolute image of the ‘other’ – the enemy which commits wartime atrocities.Nicolas Beaupré studies here the case of a German book published in 1916 called Der Hauptmann, written under the pseudonym of Armin Steinart (the actual author was Friedrich Loofs – an army doctor). The interpersonal violence in the book was such that it was subject to extensive censorship.