Belgians Under the German Eagle

by Jean Massart

[47] The passages italicized were underlined in pencil on the placard posted at Andenne.

[48] We shall give names at a later date.

[49] At least, they boast of having done so.

[50] I was told later that this old man was a sand merchant of Chatillon, and was in a state of senile dementia. He was well known to the people of Arlon.

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INDEX

Absentees, tenfold tax on, [298]-[9]
Accusations, German, of Belgian cruelty, why made, [36];
absurdity of, [36]-[7];
progress of, [38]-[49];
against the Belgian Government, [89]-[92]
Administration, German, of Belgium, [295]-[338]
Aerschot, return of prisoners to, [95];
German burgomaster of, [140]-[1];
massacre at, [166]
Agadir Crisis, [27]
Agents-Provocateurs, [317]-[20]
Aggravations, [336]-[41]
Agreements, attempt to enforce illegal, [320]-[4]
Air Raids, German, [122]-[4], [259]-[60], see Dirigibles
Albert, King, [178];
his patron saint's day, [268]-[9];
portraits of, [269]-[71];
his birthday, [272];
German abuse of, [282]-[3]
America, Germany desires to influence, [38];
sends help, [173];
Belgium's gratitude towards, [178]
Andenne, massacre at, [164], [326]-[33]
André, M. François, speech by, [139]-[40]
Anseremme, men sent to Germany, [119];
Germans hide behind women at, [119]-[20]
Antwerp, siege of, [51], [144];
bombardment of, [123]-[4], [128]-[9];
the city fired, [148];
sorties from, [163];
flight from, [166]
Arlon, massacre at, [349];
narrative of an eye-witness, [349]-[54]
Arms, surrender of, [90], [207]
Army, Belgian, the "enemy," [272]-[3];
correspondence with, [356]-[7]
Army, German, see German soldiers, Prisoners, Wounded, Officers
Assessment Bureau, suppressed, [304]
Asquith, Mr., speaks in Dublin, [53]
Atrocities, pretended Belgian ([98]-[108]);
refuted by Vorwärts, [102]-[3];
by German wounded, [104]-[5], [106]-[8]
Atrocities, German, [63], ([70]-[88]);
responsibility for, [70];
formula for excusing, [74]-[5];
method of, [91]-[2];
repetition of, [164]-[5]
August 4th, Anniversary of, [276]-[9]
August 6th, Anniversary of, [279]-[80]
Baer, on "military necessity," [82]
Bas-Luxembourg, massacres in, [71]
Belge Neutre et Loyale, La, by E. Waxweiler, [37], [49], [75], [189], [200]
Belgian Army, see Army
Belgian Government, proposals made to, [50]-[1];
accusations brought against, [89]-[92];
preventive measures taken by, [108]-[11];
people incited against, [289]-[94]
Belgium, invaded, [30]-[2];
her attitude in defence of her neutrality, [33];
invasion of, [34];
pacific
character of, [53];
disinterested behaviour of, [61]-[2];
offered a bribe, [61], [140];
famine in, [164];
present administration of, [295]-[333];
see Invasion
Bernstoff, Count, [32], [124]
Bethmann-Hollweg, his "scrap of paper" speech, and denial of same, [31];
the "strategic necessities" speech, [31]-[2], [34];
admits injustice of invasion, [63], [140];
refers to "gouged-out eyes," [207];
libellous declaration by, [209], [263]-[4], [281]-[2]
Bismarck, [9], [31];
boasts of Ems telegram, [218]
Bissing, Baron von, [23];
incites to massacre, [70], [83], [139];
cynicism and audacity of his lies, [188], [238], [336]
Blinded soldiers, legend of, [99]-[100], [102]-[3]
Blindness, deliberate, of German "intellectuals," [204], [209]
Blöm, Captain, on theory of terrorization, [89], [164], [197]
Boiling oil, legend of, [99]-[100]
Bombardment, of coast, [121]-[2];
of open towns, [123]-[4];
of monuments, [124]-[8]
Brabançonne, the, prohibited, [273]-[4]
Brabant, return of prisoners to, [96]
Bredt, on Belgian art and character, [69]
Brussels, supposed "francs-tireurs" in, [81];
return of prisoners to, [94];
pretended outrages on Germans in, [107]-[8];
the truth, [110]-[11];
the city fined, [147];
contributions imposed upon, [156]-[8];
Palais de Justice in, [162];
Belgian colours prohibited in, [268];
shops closed as demonstration, [275]
Brutality, the Kaiser calls for, [335]
Bueken, the curé of, tortured and murdered, [238]
Buisseret-Steenbecque, Count, [49]
Bülow, General von, responsible for massacres, [71]
Cæsar, sells Belgians into captivity, [93]
Camps, prisoners', [92], [94]
Capelle-au-Bois, atrocities at, [338]-[9]
Carte de ménage, the, [172]
Catholic priests, German, servility of, [216]-[17]
Censorship, the German, [14]-[16], [204];
censored papers, [258]-[9];
examples of censorship, [259]-[60]
Chamberlain, Houston Stewart, shameful libel by, [237]
Chancellor, the German, see Bethmann-Hollweg
Charleroi, atrocities at, [75];
German story of, [100], [118];
Alfred Heymel's account of, [195]-[7], [230], [354]
Churches, German hatred and destruction of, [73]-[4]
"Circulation," prohibited, [169];
allowed, [296]
Civil population, attitude of, [89]-[90];
accused of guerilla warfare, [91]-[2];
more civilians killed than soldiers by Sept. 14, [131];
lying accusations made against, [188]-[90]
Civil Prisoners, see Prisoners
Clergy, German hatred of, [72];
murdered and tortured, [72]-[3], [238], [343]
Cockerill workshops, [55]-[6]
Coercive measures taken by Germans, [115]-[17]
Collective penalties, illegal, [143]-[9]
Colours, Belgian, prohibited, [265]-[7];
wearing of the, [309]
Communal trading, exploitation, etc., [170]-[1]
Communes, property of, requisitioned, [163]-[4]

Commission for Relief, the American, [173]
Committee of Relief, the National, [173]
Conrad, Pastor, author of libel, [103]
Contributions, illegal, [154]-[6];
imposed on cities, [156];
on Brussels, [156]-[8]
Cooper-Hewitt lamp, claimed as German, [181]
Correspondence, regulations as to, [22]-[3];
with the Army, [356]-[7]
Credulity, German, [207]-[9]
Critical spirit, German surrender of the, [202]-[5]
Cruelty, necessity of, [82]-[3];
is it effectual? [195];
supposed Belgian, see Atrocities
Cugnon, lying placard at, [233]
Cynicism, German, [191]-[3]
Dead, German, transport of, [231]-[2]
Declaration of war, [50];
ignored by German newspapers, [52]
Demonstrations, prohibition of, [274]-[80]
Destitution, statistics of, [178]
Destrée, M. Jules, [50]
Deutsch-Französischer-Soldaten-Sprachführer, [143]
Dinant, return of prisoners to, [95]-[6];
massacres at, [98], [164], [166], [194], [347], [360]
Dirigibles, at Deynze, [123];
Antwerp, [124];
imaginary tale of raid on Liége, [225]-[6], [229]-[30];
Germans lose one and pretend it is French, [230]-[1]
Discussion, liberty of free, abolished, [205]
Disdain of others, German, [184]
Disunion, incitements to, [282]-[9]
Drunkenness, in German Army, [80]-[2], [134]
Dryander, Dr. O., servile complacency of, [213]-[15]
Ducarne Report, the, [43]-[4]
Dum-dum bullets, [113];
the Kaiser accuses Belgians of using, [208]
Duplicity, German, [29]
Economic depression in Belgium, [166]
Egoism of German character, [182]
Emblems, wearing of, prohibited, [268]
Ems telegram, the, [131];
Bismarck boasts of, [218]
Engagements, violation of, [262]-[4]
England, as the guarantor of Belgian neutrality, [39], [41]-[3];
Germany attempts to obtain promise of neutrality from, [264];
Belgium incited against, [294]-[5]
Eppeghem, fined, [148]-[9], [189]
Eroberung Belgiëns, Die, propagandist publication, [252]-[3]
Erzberger, Herr, objects to sentimentality, [336]
Escaille, M. de l', [47]-[9]
Espionage, German, [54]-[6], [316]-[20]
Evere, air-raid at, [260]
Executions, insufficiency of inquiry before, [74]-[6]
Factories, destruction of, [168]
Falsifications, German, of documents, [41]-[9]
Famine in Belgium, causes of, [166]-[7], [169]
Ferocity, instances of German, [333]
Filthy tricks and amusements, [340]-[1]
Fines, illegal and absurd, [146]-[9], [232]
Flag, Belgian, prohibited, [265]-[8], [277]
Flemish tongue, favoured, [285]-[7]
Fleming-Walloon problem exploited, [284]-[9]
Flight of Belgians before invasion, [166]
Fonds de Leffe, massacre at, [360]

Forest, hostages taken at, [150]
France, Germany accuses, [31]-[3];
were her suspicions genuine? [33];
pacific mood of, [35];
accused of entering Belgium in July, [36]-[7];
sudden attack on checked, [61]
Francorchamps, atrocities at, [75];
plundering of, [132]
"Francs-tireurs," the German pretence of ([63]-[80]);
were there any? [64]-[5];
an obsession, [66]-[70];
Germany's invention of, [89];
method of "repression," [86]-[7];
the Great General Staff prepares the Army for, [98]-[9];
fines for attacks by, [147]-[9];
pretext for massacre and pillage, [165];
German lies concerning, [188]-[90], [196], [207];
organization of "attacks," [236];
proposal to torture, [342]
Frankenberg, pretended murder of, [107]-[8]
Freemasons appealed to, [202]
Gand, coercion at, [116];
Belgian girl's proposal, [359]-[60]
Gas, poisonous, use of, [112]-[13], [198]-[9]
German Administration in Belgium, [295]-[333]
German character, classical authors on, [281]
German language, attempt to enforce, [272]
German mentality, [56]-[8], [67], [179]-[360]
German Prisoners, letters of, [56]-[8]
Germans, Belgian antipathy to undiminished, [307]-[11]
Germany, Belgian distrust of, [27]-[8];
Gerard, Mr., [111]
Godet, M. Philippe, [47]
Goltz, Baron von der, [23], [144], [149], [188], [199], [264]-[5], [296], [358]
Gottberg, Herr, narrative of, [68]
Graphic Lies, [218]-[24]
Great General Staff, the German, murderous tactics of, [98]-[9];
methodical care of, [236]-[7]
Greindl Report, falsification of, [41]-[3]
Haecht, massacre at, [163]
Hague Convention, violations of the, [12], [111]-[78]
Hainaut, incendiarism in, [85];
Provincial Council convened, [139]
Hate, Hymn of, [294]
Harden, Maximilian, [183], [200]
Hedin, Dr. Sven, deluded by Germans, [77]-[8], [165], [221]
Herve, massacre at, [63]
Heymann, Robert, lying narrative of attack on Jesuits, [225]-[8]
Heymel, Alfred, on the Battle of Charleroi, [195]-[6], [345]
Hindenburg, [83], [206]
Holland, refugees in, [166]
Honour, Belgian, German price of, [61], [140]
Hoover, Mr. Herbert, [174], [178]
Hostages, taking of, [149]-[51], [195]-[6], [327]
Hostilities, precede declaration of war, [51]
Houtem, atrocities at, [189]
Humanitarian sentiments, claimed by German Army, [83]
Huns, the Kaiser invokes the, [335]
Huy, atrocities at, [77], [81]
Identification cards, [322]-[3]
Incendiarism, methods of, [84]-[5];
a cover to pillage, [132];
organization of, [236]
Incendiary material, [84]-[5]
Information, extraction of, [141]-[2]
Informers, appeal to, [313]-[16]
Innocent, to suffer with or in place of guilty, [84], [143]-[9], [199]
Inscriptions, protection, [87]-[8]
Insults, German, reason of, [36]

Intellectual life in Belgium, [12]
Intellectuals, German, wilful blindness of, [209]-[10];
the "Ninety-three," [211]-[12]
International law, suppressed by war, [183]
Interprète Militaire, L', [334]
Invasion, of Belgium, reasons for the, [34]-[5];
danger of recognized, [40]-[1];

the Greindl Report, [41]-[3], [58];
reason for, [63]
Ivy leaf, wearing of, [268]
Jagow, Herr von, sends ultimatum, [30], [34]
Jesuit Convent, lying tale of, [225]-[8]
Journal de la Guerre, German propagandist journal, [247]-[8]
Jungbluth Report, the, [43]-[4]
King of Belgium, the, see Albert, King
Kitchener's Army, German account of, [187]
Koch, the apotheosis of, [180]-[1]
Koester and Noske, authors of Kriegsfahrten, [59], [132], [162], [221], [262]
Kölnische Volkszeitung, suspended, [203]
Kriegsbrauch im Landkriege, [137], [141], [159], [333]
La Guerre, German propagandist journal, [248]-[9]
Ladies, treatment of, [338]
Laeken, orgies at, [81]
L'Ami de l'Ordre, propagandist journal, [254]-[5]
Latin authors, on German race, [281]
Law of Nations, violation of the, [12]
Le Bien Public, propagandist journal, [255]-[6]
Leaflets, propagandist, [251]-[2]
League of German Scientists and Artists, [251]
Lebbeke, atrocities at, [68], [119], [354]-[5]
Leffe, massacre at, [347]
Leffe, Fonds de, massacre at, [347]-[8], [360]
Legation, British, documents found in the, [45]-[6]
Leman, General, [198], [238]
Liége, German lies concerning forts of, [50];
occupation of, lies concerning, [38]-[60];
warned against Belgian news, [187];
marvellous tale of Jesuit convent near, [225]-[8];
keeps anniversary of August 6th, [279]-[80]
Lies, concerning the situation in Belgium, [188];
concerning "francs-tireurs," [188]-[90], [217]-[282];
photographic, [218]-[20], [222]-[4];
written, [224]-[31]
Lissauer, Ernst, author of the "Hymn of Hate," [294]
Living shields, Belgians used as, [117]-[22], [263], [334]-[5]
Lloyd George, speaks at City Temple, [35]
Loot, see Pillage
Louvain, atrocities in, [87];
protective inscriptions, [88];
return of prisoners to, [95]-[6];
massacre in, [164];
lies concerning, [220]-[1]
Lügenfeldzug, [60]
Luttre, strike at, [300]-[1]
Lusitania, sinking of the, [194]
Machinery, requisitioned, [158]-[9]
Magnet, M. Charles, appeals to Freemasons for inquiry, [202]-[3]
Malines, bombardment of cathedral, [126]-[8];
traffic in suppressed, [301]-[2]
Manuals, military, [45]
Marseillaise, the, shopkeepers fined for selling, [146], [273]-[4]
Max, M., imprisoned and released, [10];
and the Governor of Belgium, [156]-[9];
his denial of a lying placard, [233]-[5], [265];
portrait worn, [309]
Massacre, the two great periods of, [86]-[7], [131], [164]-[5];
see Atrocities, Reprisals, etc.
Massacres, pretended, of German civilians, [106]-[8]
Mentality, German, [179]-[360]
Mentality of a German officer, [78]-[80]
Mercier, Cardinal, [202], [239]-[46]
Meuse, pillage on the banks of the, [197]-[8]
Middelkerke, Belgians detained at, [120]-[1]
Might before Right, [183]-[4]
Militarism, [182]-[4]
Military employment of Belgians, [113]-[14]
Militia, Belgian, escape of, [152]-[3]
Mons, pillage at, [133]
Monuments, destruction of, [124]-[8], [130]-[1]
Murders, German, [63]-[80]
Music, censored, [16], [146], [273]-[4]
National anniversary, the, [274]-[6]
National Committee of Relief, [172]-[8];
food, etc., distributed by, [175]-[7]
Neutral opinion, necessity of influencing, [36], [38], [46]-[7]
Neutrality, Belgian, violation of, [12], [27]-[62];
justification of, [31]-[2];
Germany accuses France of violating, [31]-[2];
England guarantees, [39]-[40]
News published by the German Government, [185]
News, secret propagation of, [20]-[1], [204]-[5]
Newspapers forced to appear by the German Government, [13];
censored, [15];
authorized German newspapers, [16];
official, [17];
Dutch, [18]-[19];
introduced surreptitiously, [19]-[20];
secret, [21]
Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant, correspondence in, [103]-[5]
"Ninety-three Intellectuals," the, [11], [211]-[12]
Nissen, Herr Momme, on German virtues, [181];
pretends the Belgian attitude conciliatory, [310]
Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, [38]
Observation-posts, pretended, [128]-[9], [130]
Officers, German, lie to their men, [235]-[6]
Organization, peculiarities of German, [303]
Ostend, Belgians detained in, [120]-[1]
Ottignies, account of atrocities at, by German officer, [335]-[6]
Pasteur, ignored by Germans, [180]-[1]
Pastoral Letter, Mgr. Mercier's, [240]-[6]
Pastors, Protestant, servility of, [213]-[16]
Photographs and picture-postcards, [193]-[4];
"faked" photographs, etc., [218]-[20];
showing Germans before Paris, etc., [238]-[9]
Pillage, [131];
officers join in, [132]-[4];
methodical nature of, [136]-[7];
prohibited by Kriegsbrauch, [137], [166];
systematic, [197];
on the Meuse, [197]-[8]
Placards, German, [22]
Plague, lying report of, in Paris, [236]
Poison-gas, see Gas
Poincaré, President, [220]
Pope, the, surrenders Peter's Pence, [177]
Portraits of Royal Family, [269]-[71], [309]
Postcards, see Photographs
Preventive measures, see Reprisals, Terrorization
Pride, German, [179]

Priests, see Clergy
Prisoners, civil, treatment of, [92]-[5];
return of, [95]-[6];
admittedly innocent, [96]-[8], [324];
torture of, [354]-[5]
Prisoners, German, letters of, [56]-[8], [104]-[6]
Proclamations, some absurd, [185]-[8]
Professors, manifesto of the, [3], [125], [212]-[13]
Propaganda, perfection of German, [11];
organization of, [246]-[7];
bureaux in Germany, [247]-[53];
abroad, [253]-[7]
Provincial Councils convened, [138]
Queen of Belgium, the, [11];
German abuse of, [283]-[4]
Railway journeys, [24]
Railways, stoppage of, [168]-[9], [300]
Rape, [131]
Raw material, requisitioned, [158]-[9], [167]-[8]
Red Cross, Belgian, suppressed, [105]-[6], [304]-[7]
Refugees, Belgian, [166]
Reims, bombardment of Cathedral, [124]-[6]
Relief, measures of, [171];
food, etc., distributed, [175]-[7]
Relief, National and American Committees, [172]-[8]
Repression, measures of, [152]-[3];
at Andenne, [326]-[33]
"Reprisals," against "francs-tireurs," [63]-[80];
excuse for, [74];
frivolity of, [75];
see Atrocities
Requisitions, illegal, [158]-[61];
in kind and service, [159]-[60], [166];
of forage, [167];
of provisions intended for relief, [174]
Royal Family, portraits of, [269]-[71]
Ruysbroeck, coercion at, [117]
Sabbe, M. Maurice, denies German libel, [287]-[9]
Sacrilege, [133]
School inspection, [280]-[2]
"Scrap of paper," the, [31]
Shelters, temporary, [170]
Sibret, atrocities at, [76]
Socialists, German, docility of, [206]-[7];
visit Belgium, [262], [296]
Sorel, E., [39]
Sorinnes, atrocities at, [347]-[8]
Spontin, torture and murder of priest and burgomaster at, [344]
Spitteler, Herr Karl, [46]
Stamps, theft of, [135]
State property, treatment of, [161]-[2]
Submarine campaign, [194]-[5]
Sweveghem, coercion at, [116]-[17]
Tamines, atrocities at, [135]-[6], [164]
Tavigny, atrocities at, [346]-[7]
Taxation, illegal, [137]-[41], [166], [168];
of absentees, [298]-[9]
Telegraph and telephone wires, fines, etc., for damages to, [145]-[9]
Termonde, incendiarism at, [73], [85], [164], [167], [221]
Terrorization, [64];
uses of, [83];
Blöm on theory of, [84];
the theory of the German Staff, [98]-[9];
in practice, [164]
Tervueren, prisoners from, [93]
Theft, see Pillage
Time, aggravation in respect of, [337]-[8]
Tornisterwörterbuch, [141]-[3], [334]
Torture, inflicted on priest, [238];
recommended, [342];
another priest tortured, [343];
other cases, [343]-[6];
moral and physical, [346]-[60]
Trade, stagnation of, [168]-[9]
Traffic, suppression of, [168]-[9]
Treaty of London, [39]
Ultimatum, the, [30]
Uncensored newspapers, [261]-[2]
Unemployment, [168]-[70];
patriotic reasons for, [296]

Untruthfulness, German, [217]-[82]
Useful cruelties, [336]
Villalobar, Marquis of, [173]
Violation of Belgian neutrality, see Neutrality, Belgium, Invasion
Violence, claimed as legitimate, [84], [263]
Visé, massacre at, [64]
Vorwärts, protests against German lies, [102]-[3], [184];
suspended, [203], [237];
protests against incitement to torture, [342]
War, see Ultimatum, Invasion, etc.
War Booty, [132], [135], [197], [249]-[50]
War Tax, monstrous, [139]-[40]
Waxweiler, M. Emile, [37], [49], [75], [189], [200]
Weber, pretended murder of, [107]-[8]
Wépion, atrocities at, [75]
Werchter, atrocities at, [164]
White flag, abuse of, [118]
Whitlock, Mr. Brand, [10], [110]-[11], [173], [178]
Wiart, M. Carton de, [61]-[2]
Wilhelm II, his "well-intentioned proposal," [35];
his three successive proposals, [50]-[1];
his telegram to President Wilson, [54], [89];
tacitly admits innocence of civilians, [97], [180], [189], [191], [207];
text of his telegram, [208], [264], [335]
Wilson, President, Kaiser's telegram to, [34], [208]
Wounded, German, letters from, [104]-[5];
Houston Chamberlain on Belgian treatment of, [237];
see Atrocities, pretended Belgian
Zobeltitz, refers to museum specimens as proving Belgium's preparation for war, [207]

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