The British certainly went in big with propaganda. On the other hand, the Louvain library didn't burn itself. At least during the initial war of movement, the G

The British certainly went in big with propaganda. On the other hand, the Louvain library didn't burn itself. At least during the initial war of movement, the German army seems to have had mediocre fire discipline and imagined the franc-tireurs to be responsible for what were really friendly fire incidents. They did shoot some number of people and burn some number of towns.