Belgium on the other hand was “neutral” on paper only. Its neutrality had been formally guaranteed by The Treaty of London in 1839. Germany however ignored the document— referring to the declaration as a “mere scape of paper” — and by August 1914, had occupied “neutral” Belgium. The civilian population of Belgians suffered as the German army engaged in numerous atrocities: imprisonment, forced labor, wholesale executions, deportations, and starvation tactics, (more about that later…).
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