User:Brigade Piron/Rape of Belgium

'''Atrocities during the German invasion of Belgium (1914)"


 * Alan Kramer states "from August to October 1914 the German army intentionally executed 5,521 civilians in Belgium and 906 in France; in 129 of these incidents, ten or more were killed"


 * Massacres in 1914 did not usher in period of increased violence in WEstern Europe - https://www.bl.uk/world-war-one/articles/civilian-atrocities-german-1914


 * In Dinant, 674 civilians were killed or 10% of the town's pre-war population


 * Aarschot - 19 August 1914
 * Andenne - 20 August 1914
 * Tamines - 22 August 1914 - 383 civilians killed
 * Dinant - 23 August 1914 - 674 civilians killed (worst in campaign)
 * Visé - 23 August 1914 - 600 maisons détruites et 42 civils tués
 * Gerbéviller (French Lorraine) - 24 August 1914 - 60 civilians killed
 * Leuven (Louvain) - 25-26 August 1914 - 248 civilians killed, and 1/6 buildings destroyed nd civilians held in prison camps in Germany until January 1915 (Horne/Kramer p=39-40)
 * Dendemonde - 4 September 1914
 * Surice (Philippeville) - 24-25 August 1914 - 69 civilians killed and 130 houses burnt down in small village -


 * " In 1914, at least 23,000 French and Belgian civilians were deported to Germany. Some of the victims were local notables, so the army probably intended deportation as part of a security policy against resistance." See