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because the Belgians are going to shoot you down from buildings and so
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will the French.
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Most of the atrocities on the western front were committed by the
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Germans, not by the French.
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There were five hundred Belgian civilians executed, most
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famously the nurse, Edith Cavell, who is executed with a
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couple of other people accused of treasons.
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There were cases of rape perpetuated by German troops,
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but rape had not yet become a weapon of war;
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that would wait until later in that very sad century.
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But these stories passed very quickly and were seized upon by
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propagandists on both sides, and that sort of keeps folks going.