When Britain happily accepted 250,000 desperate refugees

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1914

Belgian refugees on the harbour at Ostend waiting for a boat to take them to England.

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At the outbreak of World War I in the summer of 1914, Germany invaded Belgium on its way to France, sending hundreds of thousands of...

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