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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Fifty Germans were killed and wounded," said Lutwitz, "and for that Louvain must be wiped out so!" In pantomime with his fist he swept the papers across his table. "The Hôtel de Ville," he added, "was a beautiful building; it is a pity it must be destroyed." Were he telling us his soldiers had destroyed a kitchen-garden, his tone could not have expressed less regret.
Whitlock and myself on the morning I left Brussels by General von Lutwitz, the military governor, was this: The day before, while the German military commander of the troops in Louvain was at the Hôtel de Ville talking to the burgomaster, a son of the burgomaster, with an automatic pistol, shot the chief of staff and German staff surgeons.
Lutwitz claimed this was the signal for the civil guard, in civilian clothes on the roofs, to fire upon the German soldiers in the open square below. He said also the Belgians had quick-firing guns, brought from Antwerp. As for a week the Germans had occupied Louvain and closely guarded all approaches, the story that there was any gun-running is absurd.
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