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Prosperity Reigns in Flanders
Raemaekers, Louis, 1916, Chromolithograph
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Prosperity Reigns in Flanders
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Prosperity Reigns in Flanders
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"480 millions of francs have been imposed as a war tax, but soup is given gratis."
"Towards the middle of January 1915, a war tax of 480 millions francs had been imposed on Belgium, a sum so enormous that even the Germans themselves promised that after the Belgians had paid it no further sacrifices should be required of them. However, by a decree of January 16th, Baron von Bissing announced that an additional tax, ten times the amount of the ordinary personal taxation for 1914, would be levied on every absent citizen who had been abroad for two months if he did not return to Belgium before March 1, 1915. - p. 385. 'Germany's Responsibility in the War of 1914.' by P. Saintyves. Paris, 1915.
'In the early part of December, 1914, about 80,000 tons of food were going through the American committee by permission of Germany and England. The people have been put on one third rations. Every inhabitant of Belgium is allowed a pint of soup a day , and about as much coarse brown bread as would make an American loaf. - p. 77, 'The Audacious War.' By C. W. Barron. Boston, 1914.'"
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Raemaekers, Louis
Date
1916
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34.7 x 23.9 cm
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Chromolithograph
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Art and Design Library
Copyright
Louis Raemaekaers' drawings are reproduced by kind permission of the
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
.
The
Louis Raemaekers Foundation
have published a book of his works entitled, 'Louis Raemaekers - with pen and pencil as a weapon'.
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