29. POWs were beaten to death. held by The National Archives on the subject of this chapter. surrounding Edith Cavell. The apparently incontrovertible evidence of such atrocities, Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognising you when you return to our website and helping our team to understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful.Strictly Necessary Cookie should be enabled at all times so that we can save your preferences for cookie settings.If you disable this cookie, we will not be able to save your preferences. At the time, Wilhelm was in the neutral Netherlands, where he had fled at the end of the war at the Despite pressure to extradite the Kaiser for trial, the Dutch Detective Inspector Collins of Scotland Yard (pictured with briefcase) bringing British witnesses to court in Leipzig to testify regarding crimes and atrocities committed by the Germans in World War I.The treaty did result in other trials, though.
Entente forces carried out air raids of their
The Rape of Belgium is a phrase given to the mistreatment of Belgian civilians by German troops during the invasion and subsequent occupation of Belgium during World War I.
The accused had been dead for 75 years.It could have been the trial of the century—if it had been conducted a century before.
and Belgian refugees. Further south, hundreds of people were executed in the Belgian Ardennes; on one occasion 122 alleged The troops, exhausted from the forced marches and often under the influence of alcohol, committed a series of large-scale massacres, pillaged and burned towns and villages, and deported survivors. … But there were virtually no further outbreaks of violence similar to those of the invasion.
By then, the accused was one of history’s most hated and debated figures, a monarch known for making erratic decisions and doubling down on his sometimes inexplicable actions. Alleged German 'war crimes' Germany's invasion of Belgium on 4 August 1914 quickly prompted allegations of 'war crimes'. These massacres were no harbinger of sustained extreme violence against the invaded populations in the West. Little attempt was made to verify some
A Russian soldier forces himself on a hapless German woman These mass rapes against German women were one of the greatest crimes against women throughout history. TheA bloodied Belgian family wounded by the Germans during World War I.As the war dragged on, and more and more civilians on both sides died, both the Allied and Central powers accused one another of war crimes.