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The Rape of Belgium (August 1914 ) was a disputed event during World War I in which Germany invaded the neutral nation of Belgium as a component of its Schlieffen Plan . This violated a treaty that German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm dismissed as a "scrap of paper". The invaders terrorized the Belgians, shooting thousands of civilians and looting and burning scores of towns, including Louvain , which housed the country's preeminent university. This caused outrage abroad and is considered one of the main reasons Great Britain entered the war on France's side. The event also sparked what was many years of wartime Propaganda -- in sensationalist war posters in Britain, the Germans were drawn as Huns or gorillas, completely dehumanized and amoral. |
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