Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.

German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial

History

Horne, Associate Prof. John

Kramer, Dr. Alan

Kramer, Alan

Europe

Yale University Press

Is it true that the German army, invading Belgium and France in August 1914, perpetrated brutal atrocities? Or are accounts of the deaths of thousands of unarmed civilians mere fabrications constructed by fanatically anti-German Allied propagandists? Based on research in the archives of Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, and Italy, this pathbreaking book uncovers the truth of the events of autumn 1914 and explains how the politics of propaganda and memory have shaped radically different versions of that truth. John Horne and Alan Kramer mine military reports, official and private records, witness evidence, and war diaries to document the crimes that scholars have long denied: a campaign of brutality that led to the deaths of some 6500 Belgian and French civilians. Contemporary German accounts insisted that the civilians were guerrillas, executed for illegal resistance. In reality this claim originated in a vast collective delusion on the part of German soldiers. The authors establish how this myth originated and operated, and how opposed Allied and German views of events were used in the propaganda war. They trace the memory and forgetting of the atrocities on both sides up to and beyond World War II. Meticulously researched and convincingly argued, this book reopens a painful chapter in European history while contributing to broader debates about myth, propaganda, memory, war crimes, and the nature of the First World War.

Horne, John

Military

The German Atrocities 1914: Meanings and Memory of War (Studies in the Social and Cultural History of Modern Warfare)

Cambridge University Press

The thirteen-year-old author presents twenty-nine experiments using household chemicals and materials that demonstrate a physical or chemical principle while seeming like tricks.

How to Make a Chemical Volcano and Other Mysterious Experiments

Children's Books

Franklin Watts

The thirteen-year-old author presents twenty-nine experiments using household chemicals and materials that demonstrate a physical or chemical principle while seeming like tricks.

How to Make a Chemical Volcano: And Other Mysterious Experiments

Bookwright Pr

This concise overview of the German `Economic Miracle` of the post-World War Two reconstruction years argues that the German economy was in a far healthier position at the end of the war than previously thought, and that the preconditions for growth - a skilled and abundant labour supply and a favourable international political climate - facilitated the phenomenal `recovery` and economic growth that was to follow.

West German Economy, 1945-1955 (German Studies Series)

Business & Money

Economics

Bloomsbury Academic

Die britische Demontagepolitik am Beispiel Hamburgs, 1945-1950 (Beiträge zur Geschichte Hamburgs) (German Edition)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Verlag Verein für Hamburgische Geschichte

1914. Les atrocités allemandes: La vérité sur les crimes de guerre en France et en Belgique

TALLANDIER

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