Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Belgium ta bi manufofin tsaka tsaki tun lokacin da ta sami 'yancin kai a 1830
, cikin nasara ya guji zama mai yaƙi a cikin Yaƙin Franco-Prussian (1870<unk>71). A Yaƙin Duniya na I, Daular Jamus ta mamaye Belgium. A lokacin mamayar da ta biyo baya, Allies sun ƙarfafa ma'aikatan Belgian su yi tsayayya da masu mamayewa ta hanyar rashin biyayya, wanda ya haifar da ramuwar gayya mai yawa a kan fararen hula na Belgium ta sojojin Jamus.