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Belgium in World War I

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1005: 31: 960:") and that civilians had tortured and maltreated German soldiers. The response was a series of multiple large-scale attacks on civilians and the destruction of historic buildings and cultural centers. The German army executed between 5,500 and 6,500 French and Belgian civilians between August and November 1914, usually in near-random, large-scale shootings of civilians ordered by junior German officers. Individuals suspected of partisan activities were summarily shot. Historians researching German Army records have discovered 101 "major" incidents—where ten or more civilians were killed—with a total of 4,421 executed. Historians have also discovered 383 "minor" incidents that led to the deaths of another 1,100 Belgians. Almost all were claimed by Germany to be responses to guerrilla attacks. In addition some high-profile Belgian figures, including politician 125: 1042:(CNSA) realized that the only way to avoid a famine in Belgium was through imports from overseas. Hoover's Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) received the permission of both Germany and the Allies for their activities. As chairman of the CRB, Hoover worked with Francqui to raise money and support overseas, transporting food and aid to Belgium which was then distributed by the CNSA. The CRB purchased and imported millions of tons of foodstuffs for the CN to distribute, and watched over the CN to make sure the Germans did not appropriate the food. The CRB became a veritable independent republic of relief, with its own flag, navy, factories, mills, and railroads. Private donations and government grants (78%) supplied an $ 11-million-a-month budget. 1169: 1555: 938: 86: 1209: 873: 1335: 1117:" which was the first university that taught in the Dutch language. Dutch was also introduced as the language of instruction in all state-supported schools in Flanders in 1918. The German measures split the Movement between the "activists" or "maximalists", who believed that using German support was their only chance to realize their objectives, and the "passivists" who opposed German involvement. In 1917, the Germans created the 1479: 739: 39: 923:. The Germans sent in managers to operate factories that were underperforming. Lack of effort was a form of passive resistance; Kossmann says that for many Belgians the war years were "a long and extremely dull vacation." Belgian workers were conscripted into forced labour projects; by 1918, the Germans had deported 120,000 Belgian workers to Germany. 911:
War Refugees Committee (WRC) and the Secours National, to provide relief and support; there were an additional 1,500 local WRC committees in Britain. The high visibility of the refugees underscored the role of Belgium in the minds of the French and British. In the spring of 1915, German authorities started construction on the
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and the other leaders of France, Italy, Britain and the United States. He had four strategic goals: 1) to restore and expand the Belgian economy, using cash reparations from Germany; 2) to assure Belgium's security by the creation of a new buffer state on the left bank of the Rhine; 3) to revise the
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Belgium was poorly prepared for war. Strict neutrality meant there was no coordination of any kind with anyone. It had a new, inexperienced general staff. It started compulsory service in 1909; the plan was to have an army of 340,000 men by 1926. In 1914 the old system had been abandoned and the new
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Many civilians fled the war zones to safer parts of Belgium. Many refugees from all over the country went to the Netherlands (which was neutral) and about 300,000 to France. Over 200,000 went to Britain, where they resettled in London and found war jobs. The British and French governments set up the
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Much of the small army was captured early on as the frontier forts surrendered. In late 1914 the King had only 60,000 soldiers left. During the war young men volunteered to serve, so by 1918 the total force had returned to 170,000. That was far too few to launch a major offensive. The Germans had
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was made the symbol of all Britain was fighting for and was given an almost sacred aura. The Ypres League transformed the horrors of trench warfare into a spiritual quest in which British and Imperial troops were purified by their sacrifice. After the war Ypres became a pilgrimage destination for
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Belgium was given much less than it wanted, with a total payment of three billion German gold marks ($ 500 million in 1919; $ 8,787,000,000 in 2024); the money did not stimulate the lethargic Belgian economy of the 1920s. Belgium also received a small slice of territory in the east of the country
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continuing as prime minister and also taking on the war portfolio. Viscount Julien Davignon continued as foreign minister until 1917, when de Broqueville gave up the war ministry and took over foreign affairs. The government was broadened to include all parties, as politics were suspended for the
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On the advice of the Belgian government in exile, civil servants remained in their posts for the duration of the conflict, carrying out the day-to-day functions of government. All political activity was suspended and Parliament shut down. While farmers and coal miners kept up their routines, many
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The Bryce Report was ridiculed in the 1920s and 1930s and afterwards as highly exaggerated wartime propaganda. It relied too heavily on unproven allegations of refugees and distorted interpretations of diaries of German soldiers. Recent scholarship has not tried to validate the statements in the
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Report. Published in May 1915, the Report provided elaborate details and first-hand accounts, including excerpts from diaries and letters found on captured German soldiers. The Report was a major factor in changing public opinion in neutral countries, especially the United States. After Britain
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Belgium was not officially one of the Allies. In turn they did not consult with Belgium, but Britain, France and Russia formally pledged in 1916 that "when the moment comes, the Belgian government will be called to participate in the peace negotiations and that they will not put an end to the
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nothing to gain from an attack, so the short Belgian front was an island of relative calm as gigantic battles raged elsewhere on the Western Front. The total of Belgian soldiers killed came to about 2.0% of its eligible young men (compared to 13.3% in France and 12.5% in Germany).
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has a graver hour sounded for Belgium. The strength of our right and the need of Europe for our autonomous existence make us still hope that the dreaded events will not occur." The same day, German troops invaded Belgium, crossing the frontier at dawn.
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traces Belgium's role between the German invasion in 1914, through the continued military resistance and occupation of the territory by German forces to the armistice in 1918, as well as the role it played in the international war effort through its
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hostilities unless Belgium is re-established in its political and economic independence and largely indemnified for the damage which she has undergone. They will lend their aid to Belgium to assure her commercial and financial rehabilitation."
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would constitute a serious menace to peace and stability on the continent. The Allies considered Belgium to be the chief victim of the war, and it aroused enormous popular sympathy, but the King's advice played a small role in Paris.
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He strongly advised against a harsh, punitive treaty against Germany that would eventually provoke German revenge. He also considered that the dethronement of the princes of Central Europe and, in particular, the dissolution of the
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At its peak, the American arm, the American Relief Administration (ARA) fed 10.5 million people daily. Great Britain became reluctant to support the CRB, preferring instead to emphasize Germany's obligation to supply the relief;
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and delay a German invasion as long as possible—a strategy that in the event proved highly effective as it disrupted the German timetable. For example, the German timetable required the capture of the railway center of
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resistance during the early days of the war, with the army – around a tenth the size of the German Army – holding up the German offensive for nearly a month, gave the French and British forces time to prepare for the
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to protect Belgium in the event of war. On 2 August 1914, the German government requested that German armies be given free passage through Belgian territory. This was refused by the
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The Final Offensive had been very costly for the Belgian Army. It lost one-fifth of its forces in casualties, one-third of all the losses it sustained throughout the whole War.
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one was unready, lacking trained officers and sergeants, as well as modern equipment. The army had 102 machine guns and no heavy artillery. The strategy was to concentrate near
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The German invaders treated any resistance—such as demolition of bridges and rail lines—as illegal and subversive, shooting the offenders and burning buildings in retaliation.
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Flemish consciousness of their national identity grew through the events and experiences of war. The German occupying authorities, under Von Bissing and influenced by pre-war
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armoured car was used for reconnaissance, long distance messaging and carrying out raids and small scale engagements. Sixteen Belgians were killed in action in the east.
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Bryce Report. Instead research has gone into the official German records and have confirmed that the Germans committed large-scale deliberate atrocities in Belgium.
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Palo, Michael Francis. "The diplomacy of Belgian war aims during the First World War" (PhD Dissertation, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1977).
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The German position was that widespread sabotage and guerrilla activities by Belgian civilians were wholly illegal and deserved immediate harsh
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shipped 41,000 copies to the US, the Germans responded with their own report on atrocities against German soldiers by Belgian civilians.
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By 28 September 1918, the Belgian Army had been reorganized in 12 infantry divisions. They formed part of the Belgian-French-British
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Cartload of Belgian government public records, books and documents as it flees the Imperial German Army, published in November 1914
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Palo, Michael F. "Belgium's Response to the Peace Initiatives of December 1916: An Exercise in Diplomatic Self-Determination."
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held off the invaders for over a week, buying valuable time for Allied troops to arrive in the area. Additionally, the German "
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Pierre Purseigle, "'A Wave on to Our Shores': The Exile and Resettlement of Refugees from the Western Front, 1914–1918,"
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to capture Paris. From top to bottom, there was a firm belief that the Belgians had unleashed illegal saboteurs (called "
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larger businesses largely shut down, as did the universities. The Germans helped set up the first solely Dutch-speaking
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Den Hertog, Johan. "The Commission for Relief in Belgium and the Political Diplomatic History of the First World War,"
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Belgian troops continued to hold the same sector of frontline, known as the Yser Front and by now a part of the main
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Van arrangeren tot renseigneren. Smaad en geweld Van militairen Tegen hun oversten tijdens de eerste wereldoorlog
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Belgium faced a food crisis and an international response was organized by an American engineer based in London,
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obsolete treaty of 1839; and 4) to promote a "rapprochement" between Belgium and the Grand duchy of Luxembourg.
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The Belgian Expeditionary Corps was a small armoured car unit; it was sent to Russia in 1915 and fought on the
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Belgian soldiers fought a number of significant delaying actions in 1914 during the initial invasion. At the
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that sprang up in no man's land when fields were torn up by artillery were immortalized in the 1915 poem
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The Germans governed the occupied areas of Belgium (over 95% of the country) while a small area around
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Trevor Wilson, "Lord Bryce's Investigation into Alleged German Atrocities in Belgium, 1914–1915,"
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British veterans and civilians in the 1920s created a shrine of sacrifice in Belgium. The city of
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led a military faction that considered the Belgian relief effort "a positive military disaster."
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became a hero; his visits to the US inspired American Catholics and strengthened Belgian pride
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which had emerged in the late 19th century. These measures were collectively known as the
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The suffering of Flanders is still remembered by Flemish organizations during the yearly
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The British were quick to tell the world about German atrocities. Britain sponsored the "
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later in the year. In fact, the German advance on Paris was almost exactly on schedule.
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Britons to imagine and share the sufferings of their men and gain a spiritual benefit.
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full text online in Dutch (use CHROME browser for automatic translation to English)
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Due to the hundreds of thousands of British and Canadian casualties, the blood-red
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duration; of course, no elections were possible. The two main opposition leaders,
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Proctor, T. M. "Missing in Action: Belgian Civilians and the First World War,"
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An American Epic: Vol. I: The Relief of Belgium and Northern France, 1914–1930
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Dr. J. Goossenaertskring reikt voor het eerst Alfons De Schepperprijs uit
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area remained unoccupied. The success was a propaganda coup for Belgium.
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The Agony of Belgium The Invasion of Belgium in WWI August–December 1914
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The Agony of Belgium The Invasion of Belgium in WWI August–December 1914
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Intimate Relations between Occupiers and Occupied (Belgium and France)
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and each locality was under the ultimate control of a German officer.
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remained under Belgian control. An occupation authority, known as the
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Public Relations of the Commission for Relief in Belgium: Documents
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and it saw some of the greatest loss of life on both sides of the
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War Bread: A Personal Narrative of the War and Relief in Belgium
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The German Army was outraged at how Belgium had frustrated the
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in 1914 depicting "little" Belgium barring "big" Germany's path
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Innocent Abroad: Belgium at the Paris Peace Conference of 1919
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Belgian Refugee Relief in England during the Great War
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The Rape of Belgium: The Untold Story of World War I
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as commander of the military to lead the army while
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They played an important part in the 1172:Belgian soldier at the front line, 1918 979:Bryce Report and international response 112: 101: 5332:World War I crimes by Imperial Germany 2703:Commission for Relief in Belgium (CRB) 2563:A Journal from Our Legation in Belgium 2259:Cahiers bruxellois - Brusselse cahiers 2145:The First World War: Volume I: To Arms 1288:and his French Chief of Staff General 76:Belgium in the long nineteenth century 4764:Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia 4100:Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) 1470:in April 1919, where he met with the 1441:Belgian Expeditionary Corps in Russia 7: 5168:Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne 2491:Revue belge d’Histoire contemporaine 1546:to maintain payment of reparations. 1482:A typical municipal war memorial in 985:Committee on Alleged German Outrages 868:Belgian government at Sainte-Adresse 5097:Ottomans against the Triple Entente 3891:Second Battle of the Masurian Lakes 3830:First Battle of the Masurian Lakes 2769:Collaboration (Belgium and France) 2394:(2nd Edition Beaumont Fox, 2015), 25: 2758:Making Sense of the War (Belgium) 2282:"Belgian Armoured Cars in Russia" 1881:Horne and Kramer (January 2001). 1854:Horne and Kramer (January 2001). 1355:Force Publique § World War I 887:) for use in the occupied country 782:German invasion of Belgium (1914) 144:Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes 4193:Second Battle of the Piave River 3815:Russian invasion of East Prussia 2412:Horne, John N. and Alan Kramer. 1955:(NYU Press, 2004); Jeff Lipkes, 1794:"De Dodendraad – Wereldoorlog I" 1318:Battle of the Lys and the Escaut 1018:Commission for Relief in Belgium 737: 123: 5264:Arrest of a Suspect in Sarajevo 4464:Lithuanian Wars of Independence 2747:Resistance (Belgium and France) 2481:The Belgian Army in World War I 2416:(Yale University Press, 2001), 2213:The Belgian Army in World War I 2098:Didden, Kris (1 January 1997). 1959:(Leuven University Press, 2007) 1936:Journal of Contemporary History 1704:Breaking the Fortress Line 1914 5087:Austria-Hungary against Serbia 4946:Deportations from East Prussia 4743:1915 typhus epidemic in Serbia 1558:Typical Belgian war graves at 1366:posed no direct threat to the 1022:American Relief Administration 826:It is widely claimed that the 18:Belgium in the First World War 1: 4998:Ukrainian Canadian internment 2613:(1920)], by U.S. ambassador 2611:Belgium: a personal narrative 2526:, focused on the early months 1983:Herbert Hoover: A Public Life 1768:Contemporary European History 1320:and reached the outskirts of 1270:Final Offensive (Autumn 1918) 5153:Sazonov–Paléologue Agreement 4452:Estonian War of Independence 4120:Southern Palestine offensive 2725:Post-war Societies (Belgium) 2714:Food and Nutrition (Belgium) 2641:Articles relating to Belgium 2371:(2009) 16#1 pp 51–76, online 2132:The Low Countries: 1780–1940 2100:"De Houthakkers van de Orne" 1947:John Horne and Alan Kramer, 1840:John Horne and Alan Kramer, 1816:The Low Countries: 1780–1940 1562:, near the former Yser Front 5107:USA against Austria-Hungary 4506:Turkish War of Independence 4458:Latvian War of Independence 4183:Treaty of Bucharest of 1918 3774:Anti-Serb riots in Sarajevo 2690:Van Everbroeck, Christine: 2681:Warfare 1914–1918 (Belgium) 2429:The Low Countries 1780–1940 1706:. 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Index

Belgium in the First World War
B&W of people on a packed cart

War Bonds
Belgium
World War I
African colony
small force
Belgium in the long nineteenth century

Punch
a series
History of Belgium
Leo Belgicus
Prehistory
Neolithic flint mines of Spiennes
Ancient
Belgae
Eburones
Treveri
Gallic Wars
Ambiorix's revolt
Roman rule
Early Middle Ages
Franks
Merovingians
Carolingians
Prince-Bishopric of Liège
Middle Ages
Franco-Flemish War

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