1914 The Belgian Massacres
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1914 The Belgian Massacres
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Author : Paul Ham
language : en
Publisher: Random House Australia
Release Date : 2014-04-07
1914 The Belgian Massacres written by Paul Ham and has been published by Random House Australia this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-07 with History categories.
In the early stages of World War 1 some 800,000 German troops defied Belgian neutrality and marched across the border. In August 1914 the bulk of the German army - some 800,000 troops - defied Belgian neutrality and smashed across the border. Their orders were to invade France, destroying any Belgian resistance in their path. The German commanders were to achieve this within 6 weeks. What followed was the rape and massacre of hundreds of Belgian civilians. Scores of villages were burned. The beautiful library at Louvain was left in ashes. Such crimes were not arbitrary acts of drunken violence. They were planned and approved under the German military code. In this extract from his book 1914: The Year the World Ended, historian Paul Ham shows how the invasion of of Belgium set a brutal precedent for the Nazi occupation of Europe, 25 years later
Rehearsals
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Author : Jeff Lipkes
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2007
Rehearsals written by Jeff Lipkes and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
"People screamed, cried, and groaned. Above the tumult I could distinguish the voices of small children. All this time the soldiers were singing.... Sometime after the first salvo, there was another round of fire and, once again, I was not hit. After this I heard fewer cries, save from time to time a small child calling its mother."?Félix Bourdon, survivor of a mass execution in Dinant, BelgiumIn August 1914, without any legitimate pretext, German soldiers killed nearly 6,000 Belgian noncombatants, including women and children, and burned some 25,000 homes and other buildings. Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium as it affected civilians. Based on extensive eyewitness testimony, the book chronicles events in and around the towns of Liége, Aarschot, Andenne, Tamines, Dinant, and Leuven, where the worst of the German depredations occurred. Accounts of the killing, looting, and arson have long been dismissed as "atrocity propaganda," particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. Rehearsals examines the campaign by revisionists that led to voluminous and compelling testimony about German war crimes being discredited.Recently, the case has been made that the violence that came to a peak between August 19 and August 26, 1914, was the result of a spontaneous outbreak of German paranoia about civilian sharpshooters. In Rehearsals, Jeff Lipkes offers compelling evidence that the executions were in fact part of a deliberate campaign of terrorism ordered by military authorities. In his shocking account of events that have been largely overlooked by historians of World War I, Lipkes commemorates the heroism as well as the suffering of the Belgian victims of German aggression.
The Martyrdom Of Belgium
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Author : Belgium. Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens, des lois et des coutumes de la guerre
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
The Martyrdom Of Belgium written by Belgium. Commission d'enquête sur la violation des règles du droit des gens, des lois et des coutumes de la guerre and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1915 with Belgium categories.
The Road To Li Ge
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Author : Gustave Somville
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1916
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German Atrocities 1914
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Author : John Horne
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-01
German Atrocities 1914 written by John Horne and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-01 with History categories.
Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.
Belgium Neutral And Loyal
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Author : Émile Waxweiler
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1915
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The Martyrdom Of Belgium
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
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The Agony Of Belgium
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Author : Frank Fox
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Agony Of Belgium written by Frank Fox and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with Belgium categories.
The Agony of Belgium The Invasion of Belgium in WWI August-December 1914. A contemporary account of the German Invasion of Belgium when Fox was the War Correspondent for the Morning Post, which alerted the world to atrocities visited on the civilian population, and to historic buildings. This is a rare chance to re-discover a contemporary account of a military conflict which took place a Century ago. The Agony of Belgium, written in 1914 by Frank Fox, a war correspondent veteran of the Balkan Wars, precedes the trench warfare of the Great War. It recounts events that the modern European mind would probably wish to forget. The bravery and resilience of the relatively new and untested Belgian Army, following the rejection of the German Ultimatum by the King, deserves a wider audience.
Atrocity Propaganda 1914 1919
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Author : James Morgan Read
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
Atrocity Propaganda 1914 1919 written by James Morgan Read and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with History categories.
This book is a heavily documented study of the psychology of rumor and propaganda during World War I, with coverage of the German, Belgian, French, British and American roles.
Cardinal Mercier In The First World War
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Author : Jan De Volder
language : en
Publisher: Leuven University Press
Release Date : 2018-10-24
Cardinal Mercier In The First World War written by Jan De Volder and has been published by Leuven University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-24 with Religion categories.
Church leaders and their contrasting opinions in the face of the Great War Cardinal Désiré-Joseph Mercier, Archbishop of Malines, was the incarnation of the Belgian resistance against the German occupation during the First World War. With his famous pastoral letter of Christmas 1914 ‘Patriotisme et Endurance’ he reached a wide audience, and gained international influence and respect. Mercier’s distinct patriotic stance clearly determined his views of national politics, especially of the 'Flemish question', and his conflict with the German occupier made him a hero of the Allies. The Germans did not always know how to handle this influential man of the Church. Pope Benedict XV did not always approve of the course of action adopted by the Belgian prelate. Whereas Mercier justified the war effort as a just cause in view of the restoration of Belgium's independence, the Pope feared that "this useless massacre" meant nothing but the "suicide of civilized Europe”. Through a critical analysis of the policies of Cardinal Mercier and Pope Benedict XV, this book sheds revealing light on the contrasting positions of Church leaders in the face of the Great War.