ABSTRACT
According to the bias of the speaker or writer the vivisection of Belgium by the German army must be considered as necessary strategy or inexcusable atrocity. German strategy required the submission of Belgium. Whether right or wrong, the purpose of Germany was to strike down the armed and the unarmed resistance of Belgium with massive and overwhelming force. To accomplish this it was necessary, first, to defeat the Belgian army; and second, to terrorize and subjugate the whole people so that both physical and moral resistance would be impossible. This chapter considers what would be the expected result of the intense psychic and physical activations inflicted upon the Belgians in the light of laboratory findings, bearing in mind, however, that in no laboratory has the activation of animals been carried to such an extreme, or has such suffering been inflicted as in the vivisection of Belgium.
