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The martyrdom of Belgium, 1914 (opens the original)
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What have we done? And why? Join me ‘On Earth As It Is’ . . . because only by understanding the past will we free ourselves from its tyranny.At Tamines, on the River Sambre, on 22 August, the Germans herded 400–450 Belgian men in front of the local church and opened fire – punishment for defying the occupation and shouting ‘Vive la France’.‘It is the stern necessity of war that the punishment for hostile acts falls not only on the guilty, but on the innocent as well’ - Field Marshal Colmar Frieh
‘Sweet and right to die for your country’ (opens the original)
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What have we done? And why? Join me ‘On Earth As It Is’ . . . because only by understanding the past will we free ourselves from its tyranny.‘Our belief is that salvation for the very culture of Europe depends on the victory that German “militarism” will gain: manly virtue, faithfulness, the will to sacrifice found in the united, free German people’ - a letter signed by 3,100 German school professors in August 1914‘If the youth of the rival countries howled for war in 1914, it was because for a
The last lamp . . . (opens the original)
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What have we done? And why? Join me ‘On Earth As It Is’ . . . because only by understanding the past will we free ourselves from its tyranny.‘The lamps are going out all over Europe, we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime’ - Sir Edward Grey, British foreign secretary, the evening of 3 August 1914 Next Thursday: ‘Sweet and right to die for your country’THE TERRIBLE CHOICE facing Britain split the Cabinet and left several ministers reeling from what they were about to do.<div class="capti
‘Necessity knows no law’ (opens the original)
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What have we done? And why? Join me ‘On Earth As It Is’ . . . because only by understanding the past will we free ourselves from its tyranny.‘If die we must, better death with honour. We have no other choice. . . . Let us make no mistake about it, if Germany is victorious, Belgium . . . will be annexed to the Reich’ - Charles de Broqueville, Belgian prime minister, 2 August 1914‘If we had been weak enough to yield, tomorrow in the streets of Brussels the people would have hanged us’ - King Alber
Germany declares war on France, 3 August 1914 (opens the original)
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What have we done? And why? Join me ‘On Earth As It Is’ . . . because only by understanding the past will we free ourselves from its tyranny.Unfortunately, the telegram was so mutilated that . . . only fragments of it could be deciphered . . . I had to make up my mind to fall back on the little that could be clearly understood from the telegram to justify the declaration of war. - Baron von Schoen, German ambassador in Paris, on receipt of his instructions to declare war on France, 3 August 1914
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