It was used for all orders, official publications and instruction trainings. From the staggering statistics to the stories of conditions in the trenches of the Western front, the war continues to exert an irresistible fascination for all generations. There are 1 items available. Belgium and World War I As international tensions heightened during the summer of 1914, Germany made plans to besiege France by crossing Luxembourg and Belgium, despite their neutrality.

Among the latter were many bourgeois who gradually rose to the rank of junior officer. The German occupation of Belgium of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces of the German Empire between 1914 and 1918. Simoens, Tom: Belgian Soldiers , in: 1914-1918-online. Photograph courtesy of Photos of the Great War website,