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    The Belgian Resistance (French: Résistance belge, Dutch: Belgisch verzet) collectively refers to the resistance movements opposed to the German occupation...
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  • resistance movements were: The Albanian Resistance The Belgian Resistance The Bulgarian Resistance (led by the Fatherland Front) The Czech Resistance...
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    days of fighting in which Belgian forces were pushed back into a small pocket in the north-west of the country, the Belgian military surrendered to the...
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  • German-occupied Belgium. The boy Jean Benoit finds the wounded pilot and takes him to the house of Claire and Henri Daussois who belong to the Belgian Resistance. As...
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  • Vincent, a Belgian resistance fighter aiding Quinn and Bailey in returning to England Vincent Londez as Jean Achten, a Belgian resistance fighter aiding...
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    vigorous protest, the Germans deported Belgian civilians to work in factories in Germany. Meanwhile, the Belgian Resistance, formed in late 1940, expanded vastly...
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    Courcelles massacre (category Belgian Resistance)
    Liberation of Belgium in revenge for the killing of a Rexist official by the Belgian Resistance. At the time of the German invasion in May 1940, Belgium had several...
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    The Belgian resistance was unusually well informed on the fate of the deported Jews. In August 1942 (two months after the start of the Belgian deportations)...
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    Nazi ghost train (category Belgian Resistance)
    prisoners could not sit down. Two Belgian officials of the railway station, Michel Petit (a member of the Belgian Resistance to the German occupation) and...
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    Andrée de Jongh (category Belgian resistance members)
    – 13 October 2007), called Dédée and Postman, was a member of the Belgian Resistance during the Second World War. She organised and led the Comet Line...
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    Leger, GL) was an organisation within the Belgian Resistance, active during the German occupation of Belgium during World War II. With more than 54,000...
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    Escape and evasion lines (World War II) (category Belgian Resistance)
    Monique de Bissy, Belgian, Comet Line Elvire de Greef, Belgian, Comet Line. Fernand de Greef, Belgian, Comet Line Frederick de Greef, Belgian, Comet Line Janine...
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  • anti-Nazi Belgian resistance movement British resistance movements SIS Section D and Section VII (planned Resistance organisations) Resistance in the German-occupied...
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    reason for the comparatively high survival rate of Belgian Jews during the Holocaust. Belgian resistance to the treatment of Jews crystallised between August–September...
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    (1992) Fury (1992) World 2 World (1992) Message To The Majors (1992) Belgian Resistance (1992) Acid Rain EP (1992) Panic EP (1992) Piranha (1992) Kamikaze...
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    The invasion of Belgium or Belgian campaign (10–28 May 1940), often referred to within Belgium as the 18 Days' Campaign (French: Campagne des 18 jours;...
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    Princess Marie of Croÿ (category French Resistance members)
    November 1875 – 20 June 1968) was a member of the Belgian aristocracy and a member of the Belgian Resistance during two world wars. Princess Marie was born...
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    The Rape of Belgium was a series of systematic war crimes, especially mass murder and deportation, by German troops against Belgian civilians during the...
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  • fight. All Resistance groups tried and managed to contact the government-in-exile, and many also made contact with Belgian and French Resistance groups....
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  • former Countess Marie Josée de la Barre d’Erquelinnes and wartime Belgian resistance fighter. After studying law at The American University Washington...
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  • Secret Army (Belgium), an organisation in the Belgian Resistance during World War II Secret Army (France), an organisation in the French Resistance during WW...
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    Albert Guérisse (category Belgian resistance members)
    KBE, DSO (5 April 1911 – 26 March 1989) was a Belgian Resistance member who organized French and Belgian escape routes for downed Allied pilots during...
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  • institute that is part of Utrecht University Front de l'Indépendance, a Belgian resistance organization in World War II Icelandair (IATA code FI, from the old...
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    German-occupied Belgium. The Wallinger service was linked to several Belgian resistance groups. A well-known recruit of Wallinger was the Belgian resistance heroine...
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    the Belgian Army. Known popularly as the Belgian Legion, it saw active service in Mexico as part of the Imperial forces, before returning to Belgium for...
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  • with the help of the Committee for the Defence of Jews within the Belgian Resistance. After the war, the Bilds immigrated to Montreal, Canada, in 1948...
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    Anderlecht, a municipality of Brussels, Belgium, tracing the history of the Belgian Resistance and German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The museum...
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    Ernest Mandel (category Belgian resistance members)
    Walter, was a Belgian Marxian economist, Trotskyist activist and theorist, and Holocaust survivor. He fought in the underground resistance against the Nazis...
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  • Secret Army (TV series) (category Belgian Resistance)
    BBC and the Belgian national broadcaster BRT (now VRT) created by Gerard Glaister. It tells the story of a fictional Belgian resistance movement in German-occupied...
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    Roy Courlander (category Belgian resistance members)
    1944, the two men arrived in Brussels, where they linked up with the Belgian Resistance. They participated in street fighting against the Germans, with Courlander...
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