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SUMMARY:Sophie De Schaepdrijver: “The German Occupation of Belgium during the First World War”
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DESCRIPTION:The First World War is commonly seen in terms of “front” and “home front,” 
 but there was another dimension: that of military occupation. Vast swaths o
 f Europe experienced the war under occupation. Their war was both total (be
 cause occupation cut deep into ordinary life) and marginal (because occupie
 d populations could do little to influence the war’s outcome).\nThe German 
 occupation of Belgium started with an explosion of violence against civilia
 ns, and then settled into more a routine regime of coercion, exploitation, 
 and wary modus vivendi. Belgium offers a good vantage-point for the study o
 f First World War occupation for several reasons. It was, at the time, the 
 most densely populated country in the world; it was (and is) bilingual; the
  international symbolic stakes surrounding its conquest were enormous.\nOcc
 upied Belgium was the theatre of opposing efforts: even as the occupying re
 gime sought legitimacy, occupied civilians saw their patriotic task as deny
 ing it legitimacy. This lecture will describe the resulting patriotic cultu
 re and its dissemination through underground channels. It will then go on t
 o point out its paradoxes. Patriotic culture left hierarchies of class and 
 gender largely intact. It was largely couched in the dominant language (Fre
 nch) only. And it was singularly inhospitable to one large group: the army-
 age men who had not been called up and found themselves marooned in the occ
 upied country. For all that, during the war, civilian nonacceptance of the 
 occupation regime remained resilient. Postwar disillusionments proved more 
 corrosive.\n
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>The First World War is commonly seen in terms of “front” and “home front
 ,” but there was another dimension: that of military occupation. Vast swath
 s of Europe experienced the war under occupation. Their war was both total 
 (because occupation cut deep into ordinary life) and marginal (because occu
 pied populations could do little to influence the war’s outcome).</p><p>The
  German occupation of Belgium started with an explosion of violence against
  civilians, and then settled into more a routine regime of coercion, exploi
 tation, and wary modus vivendi. Belgium offers a good vantage-point for the
  study of First World War occupation for several reasons. It was, at the ti
 me, the most densely populated country in the world; it was (and is) biling
 ual; the international symbolic stakes surrounding its conquest were enormo
 us.</p><p>Occupied Belgium was the theatre of opposing efforts: even as the
  occupying regime sought legitimacy, occupied civilians saw their patriotic
  task as denying it legitimacy. This lecture will describe the resulting pa
 triotic culture and its dissemination through underground channels. It will
  then go on to point out its paradoxes. Patriotic culture left hierarchies 
 of class and gender largely intact. It was largely couched in the dominant 
 language (French) only. And it was singularly inhospitable to one large gro
 up: the army-age men who had not been called up and found themselves maroon
 ed in the occupied country. For all that, during the war, civilian nonaccep
 tance of the occupation regime remained resilient. Postwar disillusionments
  proved more corrosive.</p>
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