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Entry: Frum's Mishagas Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/frums_mishagas#9411 Post contents: You write: <i>"I was amused by Frum’s reference to German atrocities in Belgium foreshadowing those of the Nazi occupation of Poland and Ukraine. Presumably he is still reading the horror reports of Lord Bryce, who was in charge of British war propaganda. Unlike Frum, however, Bryce admitted to having invented his facts, as a wartime patriotic act."</i> You are quite right that reports of German wartime atrocities (particularly in Belgium) were thoroughly exploited by allied propagandists. The charge of atrocity is not for all that without foundation, quite the contrary. I would suggest you take a look at John Horne and Alan Kramer's <i>German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial</i> (Yale, 2002), the most authoritative and sustained examination of the question to date. There is of course an important difference between Belgium and the Ukraine (apart from the question of scale and duration): in the latter but not the former, the murders were part of a well-organized, genocidal campaign of extermination. In Belgium, by contrast, the killings had not been planned and the practice was quickly eliminated once conditions on the front had settled. Sent at: 2008 07 06