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Dynamic of destruction culture and mass killing in the First World War

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destru.

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  • "On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a different style of war, without the rules that had governed military conflict up to that point - a more total war, in which enemy civilians and their entire culture were now'legitimate' targets. Yet the destruction at Louvain was simply one symbolic moment in a wider wave of cultural destru."@en
  • "Taking the burning of Louvain library by German troops in 1914 as his starting point, award-winning historian Alan Kramer offers a vivid new account of the wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept across Europe in the second and third decades of the twentieth century. - ;On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be seen as the beginning of a dif."@en

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  • "Dynamic of Destruction : Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War"
  • "Dynamic of destruction : culture and mass killing in the first world war"
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  • "Dynamic of destruction culture and mass killing in the First World War"
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