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Louvain
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.
This is one scene of Chapter 2 — The Guns of August in The Great War, 1914–1918.
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