How did Britain handle its biggest wave of refugees ever?
On the eve of World War One, as German forces demanded safe passage through Belgium on their way to attack France, the Belgian king refused to stand aside. What came next was unimaginable. Cities were burnt, civilians were murdered. ’The rape of Belgium’, as it became known, invoked the sympathy of the world.
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