re: #94 celticdragon

To some degree in Belgium during WW I, but probably nothing like what the propagandists in France made out.

In WW II, it was the other way around. The propagandists came nowhere close to how frakking bad the Germans were.

John Keegan wrote well about it in his one volume history of WWI. It was inflated by propaganda, but the German Army clearly did engage in atrocities in Belgium and did so as acts of deliberate policy. Hitler adopted the reprisal policy of the army he served in and took it to new and terrifying heights.