soldier killed in the shelling. He had been treated for his wounds by French medics at the cathedral. Watch lent by Her Majesty The Queen Atrocity photographs These photographs show some of the 262 inhabitants of the Belgian town of Andenne murdered by German soldiers on 21 August 1914. The was accused of attacking German town’s population troops in a eyewitness ‘treacherous fashion’. An of civilians lying on the described, ‘The corpses …many the square, desperate looking men, women ground…In and children, more dead than alive, half-clothed ... Everywhere terror and brutality’. Moneybox, poster and paperknife The German public celebrated as symbols ‘Big Berthas’ of military power and technological achievement. This moneybox and poster each depict an image of a ‘Big Bertha shell. The paperknife was made from a fragment of a shell fired at a Belgian fort at Namur. 42cm shell This 42cm shell was the type fired by the huge Big Bertha siege mortars to smash Belgian and French fortresses. Célestin Demblon, a Belgian politician, described the of one being fired, ‘frightful explosion’ ‘The crowd was flung back, the earth shook like an earthquake and all the window panes in the vicinity were shattered’. Photo caption
soldier killed in the shelling. He had been treated for his wounds by French medics at the cathedral. Watch lent by Her Majesty The Queen Atrocity photographs These photographs show some of the 262 inhabitants of the Belgian town of Andenne murdered by German soldiers on 21 August 1914. The town’s population was accused of attacking German troops in a ‘treacherous fashion’. An eyewitness described, ‘The corpses of …many civilians lying on the ground…In the square, desperate looking men, women and children, more dead than alive, half-clothed ... Everywhere terror and brutality’. Moneybox, poster and paperknife The German public celebrated ‘Big Berthas’ as symbols of military power and technological achievement. This moneybox and poster each depict an image of a ‘Big Bertha shell. The paperknife was made from a fragment of a shell fired at a Belgian fort at Namur. 42cm shell This 42cm shell was the type fired by the huge Big Bertha siege mortars to smash Belgian and French fortresses. Célestin Demblon, a Belgian politician, described the ‘frightful explosion’ of one being fired, ‘The crowd was flung back, the earth shook like an earthquake and all the window panes in the vicinity were shattered’. Photo caption
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