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"The Commission for Relief in Belgium and the Political Diplomatic History of the First World War," Diplomacy and Statecraft (2010) 21#4 pp 593–613. Fox, Sir Frank. The Agony of Belgium The Invasion of Belgium in WWI August–December 1914 (2nd Edition Beaumont Fox, 2015), Summary of book Archived 2018-08-04 at the Wayback Machine; Review of ...
The German General Government of Belgium (Kaiserliches Deutsches Generalgouvernement Belgien), was established on 26 August 1914 with Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz as the Military Governor. Goltz was succeeded by General Moritz von Bissing on 27 November 1914. [58] Soon after Bissing's appointment, OHL divided Belgium into three ...
Before the war, Belgium was a constitutional monarchy and was noted for being one of the most industrialised countries in the world. [1] On 4 August 1914, the German army invaded Belgium just days after presenting an ultimatum to the Belgian government to allow free passage of German troops across its borders. [2]
The General Government was set up on 26 August 1914, when Field Marshal Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz was appointed as military governor of Belgium. [1] He was succeeded by General Moritz von Bissing on 27 November 1914. [1] Soon after Bissing's appointment, the German High Command divided Belgium into three distinct administrative zones. [2]
24 May – Belgian general election, 1914; July. 25 July – General mobilisation for the eventuality of war. August. 4 August – German invasion with attendant atrocities: beginning of Belgian involvement in World War I. 5 to 16 August – Battle of Liège. 12 August – Battle of Haelen (1914) 20 to 25 August – Siege of Namur (1914)
The forts faced France, a nation that Belgium had fought alongside for its independence. The dismantling of the Wellington Barrier forts began in 1839, but after the Revolutions of 1848 and the establishment of the Second French Empire in 1851, Belgium faced the possibility of invasion by
Émile Cammaerts, Through the Iron Bars (Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium), with illustrations by Louis Raemaekers (London and New York, John Lane). [2] Hugh Gibson, A Diplomatic Diary (London, New York and Toronto, Hodder and Stoughton, 1917). [3] Arnold J. Toynbee, The Belgian Deportations (London, T. Fisher Unwin) [4]
After the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on 28 June 1919, between Germany on the one side and France, Italy, Britain and other minor allied powers on the other, officially ended war between those countries. Other treaties ended the relationships of the United States and the other Central Powers.