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I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in Belgium during the German Occupation of 1918.

Maurice Maeterlinck
Play, Enemy, Germany
"Author, His Money in Brussels Bank Taken by Nazis, Has Only Royalties From 'The Bluebird' - Brings Two Plays; Maeterlinck, Impoverished Exile, Arrives With Wife From France", www.nytimes.com. July 13, 1940.
I knew that if I was captured by the Germans I would be shot at once, since I have always been counted as an enemy of Germany because of my play, 'Le Bourgmestre de Stillemonde,' which dealt with the conditions in