It even got so bad they were accusing Germans of eating Belgian babies. Amazing and incredulous but once war hysteria sets in many will believe anything if it reinforces their perceptions of a hated enemy.
“ It is true that many of the more sensational stories of German “outrages” perpetrated in Belgium during the course of the invasion and ensuing occupation are very hard to believe, much less corroborate. German soldiers eating Belgian babies; German soldiers hanging Belgian nuns between church bells and ringing them to death; German soldiers crucifying dozens of farmers by the roadside; and so on — these are stories that are familiar to us through the fact of them having now become standard examples of why “propaganda” is not to be trusted.”
http://ww1centenary.oucs.ox.ac.uk/war-as-revolution/the-rape-of-belgium-revisited/
Its moronic to argue, no atrocities committed are to be acknowledged because during WW1 false propaganda was used.
But during the Holodomor Stalin starved more than a million Ukrainians to the point where cannibalism of children was documented.