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06-23-2009 07:37 PM
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Please pardon the nitpick, but I think you mean "expatriates" (people who are living outside their own country) rather than ex-patriots (people who were formerly patriots but who have rejected their country).
Jim
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I have also read that, and am more than a little doubtful. While the Belgians might have taken themselves and their skills to England, I doubt they took any significant amount of machinery. Liege is less than 20 miles from the German border; IIRC, the invasion began on 4 August and the Germans reached Liege on the 5th. The vaunted forts of Liege held out for a while (the last surrendered on 16 August after being bombarded by the 42cm Krupp cannon known as "Big Bertha"), but they were not a continuous line and the Germans surrounded and actually entered the city several days earlier. Given the state of confusion and the near impossibility of movement, I doubt machines of any size could have been removed, loaded, and transported to the ports in the interval.
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Very possible!.. Maybe some of our English members can jump in here since all the "action" was to have happened in Birmingham.