„Gwałt na Belgii” w ilustracjach Louisa Raemaekersa. Historia i charakterystyka

Belgium was the first victim of the Great War. The abuse of its neutrality in August 1914 shocked Europeans and provided the Allies with a convincing argument to enter the war against Kaiser’s army. “The Rape of Belgium” became a leitmotif of an anti-German propaganda. The present article examines illustrations of invaded and occupied Belgium by a Dutch artist Louis Raemaekers (1869–1956). He exploited the theme of devastated Belgium and illustrated Germans as a menace not only to Belgium, but to the entire Western civilisation. His fruitful cooperation with the British War Propaganda Bureau a... Mehr ...