luttwitz's

Updated: June 25, 2025

You may take the children's bread, you may take their freedom, but you might at least leave them a few toys to play with, and you would be wise to do so. Such narrow-minded tyranny always defeats its own objects. Burgomaster Max's proud answer to General von Luttwitz's "advice" to remove the flags became the password of the patriots. Every Bruxellois henceforth "waited for the hour of reparation."

Emile Cammaerts - Through the Iron Bars : Two Years of German Occupation in Belgium