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The former Belgian army fort at Breendonk, near Mechelen, was requisitioned by the Nazis and used for detainment and interrogation of Jews, political prisoners and captured members of the resistance.
Germany's invasion of Belgium and the treatment of the civilian population became a major feature in British recruitment, as evident in this poster published in 1914 by the Parliamentary Recruiting Committee.
The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II began on 28 May 1940, when the Belgian army surrendered to German forces, and lasted until Belgium's liberation by the Western Allies between September 1944 and February 1945.
Jan 31, 2014 · The Great War had begun. Germany’s occupation paralyzed Belgium. All international trade ground to a halt—a grave problem for a country that imported three-quarters of its food. Reserve stores of flour and other foodstuffs were quickly exhausted—and then the German army grabbed most of Belgium’s 1914 agricultural harvest.
- Richard Ernsberger Jr.
But it wasn’t until May 1940 when Hitler ordered a ‘blitzkrieg’ or concentrated air and land attack on Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands that allied action really begin to gain pace. The battlefront in WW2 was to become faster moving than in World War One both on ground and in air.
The Armistice agreement foresaw the occupation of the left bank of the Rhine, the dates of which were set by the Treaty of Versailles. The inter-allied occupation was a long-term endeavour: the French settled in the south and the Belgians in the north of the Rhine basin.
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The former Belgian army fort at Breendonk, near Mechelen, was requisitioned by the Nazis and used for detainment and interrogation of Jews, political prisoners and captured members of the resistance.
