The German army of Conrad III behaved unbearably even towards their French co-crusaders. In competition at a market with a French group which had gone ahead of the main French army, the Germans used their numbers to satisfy themselves before the French could begin, and even so picked a fight with them which was hard to stop. Conrad's men would often get drunk, lag behind the army and be killed. As their bodies remained unburied, German corpses became as great a health hazard to the following French as treacherous live Byzantines. German aggression was one reason for Greek mistrust of the French