Committee on Alleged German Outrages

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The Committee on Alleged German Outrages, commonly known as The Bryce Commission, was formed in December 1914, under the leadership of Prime Minister H.H. Asquith. Britain’s war propaganda headquarters, (Wellington House), initiated what would become a triumph for Britain in World War I. The report was commonly referred to as The Bryce Report because it was directed by Viscount James Bryce. The committee also included Sir Frederick Pollock, Sir Edward Clarke, Sir Alfred Hopkinson, Sir Kenelm E. Digby, Mr. H. A. L. Fisher, and Mr. Harold Cox. The goal of this committee was to investigate the charges of German soldiers committing outrages against civilians during the invasion of Belgium in World War I.

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For the text go to http://www.gwpda.org/wwi-www/BryceReport/bryce_r.html

For comments on it see Linda Robertson's article on the Brigham Young University website http://net.lib.byu.edu/estu/wwi/comment/bryce.html

German atrocities in Belgium are often underplayed, but see John Horne and Alan Kramer – German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (Yale University Press, 2001) and John Horne and Alan Kramer – 'German "Atrocities" and Franco-German Opinion, 1914: The Evidence of German Soldiers' Diaries' in The Journal of Modern History Vol. 66 No. 1 (March 1994), pp. 1-33. The latter is available on the Internet for US$14 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0022-2801(199403)66%3A1%3C1%3AG%22AFO1%3E2.0.CO%3B2-C