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Neutral States States that do not participate in a war. The legal status “neutral” implies the right and the duty to pursue corresponding policies. The consequence thereof is a foreign policy that avoids any more or less explicit alignment in the international conflicts that occur in times of peace. Six European states adhered to various forms of neutrality for the entire duration of the war. The monarchs of the Scandinavian states Denmark (Christian X), the sovereign territory of which also included Iceland and
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,000 volts of electricity, was financed by compulsory levies on the Belgian communes and erected using forced labor. From September 1915 until the war’s end, it sealed Belgium off completely from the neutral Netherlands. By October 1918 several hundred people, mainly Belgian escapees, had been killed by the high voltage fence. Additional casualties had been seized as they attempted to cross the border and shot under martial law. Despite the steady reinforcement and ceaseless guarding of the high voltage fence by land forces using spotlights and trip-wire alarms, the