WWI · SITE OF MEMORY ·
Destruction of Louvain (1914)
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25-30 Aug 1914 — German troops, panicked by rumors of francs-tireurs, burn the medieval university city and its library of 300,000 books, and shoot 248 civilians. Some 6,500 Belgian and French civilians are killed in the invasion. Remember them.
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- Schlieffen Plan and the Marne (chapter 4 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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