His unfortunate victims, whether Communist, Jewish or merely the well-off, included women and often children, particularly Jewish ones - 'because the Jews are not protected by any law... neither men nor women nor their seed should remain'. They suffered frenzied beatings ('did you know men can still walk when flesh and bone is separated?'), being dragged by a noose behind moving cars or hunted through streets by Cossacks; there were beheadings, burnings alive, dismemberments and disembowelments, exposure naked on ice, the rending of bodies by wild animals, being forced naked up trees until they fell out and were shot and, finally, in Palmer's evocative description, Ungern 'sometimes ordered his men to bend back a tree, then bound the victim to it to be ripped apart by the branches when it was released'.