The Internment of Belgian Officers and Soldiers in the Netherlands during the First World War: From the Origins to the Post-War Political and Judicial Consequences for those Involved

Following a question in the Belgian parliament, the topic of the unjust treatment of the soldiers who were interned in the neutral country of the Netherlands after the fall of the Fortified Position of Antwerp was put up for research. This internment was a legal option, as described in the Convention of The Hague of 1907. The Lawrence Van Haecke research aims to reconstruct the post-war politics concerning more than 30,000 Belgian soldiers who were interned in the Netherlands after Antwerp fell in October 1914. It is unclear how these soldiers were viewed by the Belgian government and army authorities and how they were treated after the war.