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The German Terror In France
An Historical Record
Arnold J. Toynbee
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The German Terror In France
Preface
I. From Lige To The Marne.
(i) From Lige to the Scheldt.
ii) From the Scheldt to the Oise.
(iii) Across the Oise.
(iv) The Crossing of the Marne.
(v) From Lige to the Sambre.
(vi) From the Sambre to the Marne.
II. Between Namur And Verdun.
(i) Andenne and Namur.
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The German Terror In France
Preface
"The German Terror in France" is a direct continuation of "The German Terror in Belgium" which was published several months ago. The chapters are numbered consecutively throughout the two volumes, and between them they cover all the ground overrun by the German Armies in their invasion on the West.
For the purpose of the book and the scheme on which it is written, the reader is referred to the preface of the earlier volume. But it may be mentioned that, while Chapter IV in the present volume is on the same scale as those which precede it, Chapters V, VI, and VII are considerably compressed. In these later chapters, as in the others, full references to the sources are given in the footnotes; but the sources themselves are not quoted so freely in the text, and I have in many cases been content to reprint summaries of the first-hand evidence already made by the French and Belgian Commissions, instead of re-analyzing and re-summarizing the original material myself.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE.
I. From Lige To The Marne.
(i) From Lige to the Scheldt.
The German advance from Lige towards Antwerp, in the latter part of August, 1914, was accompanied by terrible outrages upon the civil population. The massacres at Aerschot, the bombardment of Malines, the devastation of the villages between Malines and Louvain, and the sack of the city of Louvain itself, were all directly connected with this military movement, and have made it notorious above all other German operations in the European War. Yet from the strategical point of view it was a subsidiary movement a diversion on the extreme right flank, to cover the main German armies in their sweep across Belgium into the heart of France. Moving at an almost incredible speed, these armies traversed a vast extent of territory before they were checked and thrown back at the Marne, and the outrages they committed in their passage probably amounted to a greater sum of crime and suffering than the horrors concentrated between the Belgian frontier and Lige, or between the Dmer and the Senne.
The right wing of the invaders was formed by the armies of von Kluck and von Blow. Screened by the covering force on their northern flank, these two armies poured through the gap between the Belgian fortresses of Antwerp and Namur von Kluck on the right and von Blow on the left (von Kluck's right flank columns wheeled through Brussels). Moving abreast in an immense curve, they crossed the Scheldt and the Sambre, the Somme and the Oise and the Marne, and were defeated on the lines of the Grand and the Petit Morin. At the end of their advance they were still abreast, but their fronts were facing south instead of west, and they were due east of Paris.
" At Rosoux'' wrote one of von Kluck's soldiers in his diary on Aug. 17th, "wine by the cask. We live like God in France; the villa of a Belgian General supplies everything." The soldier had anticipated his objective, for Rosoux lay within the first stage of his march from Lige to the Scheldt. He and his fellows committed many worse outrages than drunkenness and pillage before they passed out of Belgium again across the French frontier.
On the road from Jodoigne to Wavre, on Aug. 18th, a detachment of Bavarian cyclists advanced upon the Belgian outposts with the cur of Jodoigne in front of them as a screen. The Belgian fire, more fortunate than on other occasions, struck down the leading Bavarians, and the cur escaped. The village of Linsmeau suffered more severely. Eighteen civilians were killed there, and the whole male population was carried off to work for the invaders. A Belgian soldier saw three of the corpses at Linsmeau lying in the cowshed of a burnt farm. They were a man and two children " one of them a boy of fourteen, the other a girl of ten." Seven houses were burnt at Linsmeau altogether. At Melin two houses were burnt and 200 plundered (out of 327); three of the inhabitants were killed. Beyond Biez, again, at the bridge of Lives, the Germans used civilians as a screen this time women and children, who were brought down by the Belgian fire. Thirty-seven houses were burnt altogether, and twenty-seven civilians killed, in the Canton of Jodoigne.
At Wavre fifty-eight houses were burnt, and a Belgian dispatch rider, who traversed the town after the Germans had passed, saw the body of a girl lying on the pavement. It was naked, and had been ripped open. Yet on Aug. 27th, after these events, the Burgomaster of Wavre received the following communication from the German Lieutenant-General von Nieber:
"On Aug. 22nd, 1914, the General Commanding the Second Army, General von Blow, imposed on the town of Wavre a war levy of 3,000,000 francs, payable before Sept. 1st, to expiate the heinous conduct, contrary to International Law and the customs of war, of which the inhabitants were guilty in making a surprise attack on the German troops.... The town of Wavre will be set on fire and destroyed if the payment is not made when due, without distinction of persons; the innocent will suffer with the guilty."
It was " contrary to International Law," as formulated in the Hague Convention of 1907 concerning the Laws and Customs of War on Land, to impose a collective penalty on Wavre for the acts of individual inhabitants, even if these acts were serious and beyond dispute. In the case of Wavre, however, no evidence whatever is offered in the German White Book in support of the sweeping accusations in the German proclamation of Sept. 1st, 1914.
Beyond the Dyle the German fury increased. "About midday," writes a German diarist on Aug". 19th, "we reached a village which had been terribly ravaged houses burnt, everything smashed to atoms, abandoned cattle wandering about the streets bellowing, and inhabitants lying shot. A company of the Infantry Regiment No. 75, which had bivouacked not far from the village the night before, had been fallen upon by the inhabitants and had made a shambles. Sixty-nine good soldiers were killed or wounded. As punishment the village was wiped out.
"Aug. 20th.- We again passed through villages whose inhabitants had fired. The usual punishment had been inflicted."
The acts of the Germans are admitted by the Germans themselves; the alleged provocation on the Belgian side can be better judged by the conduct of von Blow's troops in Ottignies and Mousty, where our evidence is more complete.
Keeping in touch with von Kluck's left, von Blow's main forces passed across Southern Brabant, sweeping round the northern forts of Namur. So long as they encountered no resistance from the Belgian Army they spared the civilians their lives, and chiefly plundered and burned. At Autre-Eglise they only killed three civilians, but plundered 150 houses out of 232. They plundered another 150 houses at Ramillie's, and burned 22 (out of 176). At Noville-sur-Mehaigne they plundered 185 and burned 3 out of 197; at Thorembais 250 and 3 out of 269. In the Canton of Perwez they plundered 527 and burned 9 altogether. Then, on Aug. 19th, von Blow's Uhlans were checked by Belgian outposts at Ottignies on the line of the Dyle, a few miles above Wavre. One Uhlan was wounded and two were killed.
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