The burning of the Library of Louvain was a classic "German atrocity," barely surpassed by the shooting of Edith Cavell.
The Treaty of Versailles provides, in Part VIII, Section II, Article 247, that: "Germany undertakes to furnish to the University of Louvain . . . manuscripts, incunabula—, printed books, maps and objects of collection corresponding in number and value to those destroyed in the burning by Germany of the Library of Louvain."
When U. S. contributors offered to rebuild the Library, Belgium's beloved Hero...
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