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    Fort Breendonk (Dutch: Fort van Breendonk, French: Fort de Breendonk) is a former military installation at Breendonk, near Mechelen, in Belgium which served...
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    From the 20th century on, it was best known for its fortification at Fort Breendonk, built in 1909. It was judged that Antwerp, being continental Europe's...
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    died in captivity. The Germans requisitioned the former Belgian army Fort Breendonk, near Mechelen, which was used for torture and interrogation of political...
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    be seen at the Gross-Rosen, and Theresienstadt camps, as well as at Fort Breendonk in Belgium. At the Monowitz camp (also known as Auschwitz III), the...
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  • Philipp Schmitt (category Breendonk prison camp personnel)
    German officer of the Schutzstaffel (SS) who served as commandant of Fort Breendonk, a Nazi prison camp in German-occupied Belgium during World War II....
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    Gefen. p. 309. ISBN 9789652292797. Cruise Travel. August 1982. p. 44. Fort Breendonk (Nazi Camp): Pictorial essay. Mentions local torture chamber via Internet...
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    commandant in Dachau (1933–1939), went on to become camp commandant at Fort Breendonk, Belgium SS-Sturmbannführer Robert Erspenmüller, first warden of the...
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    (1917-1977): Franklemon was arrested on August 4, 1943, and imprisoned at Fort Breendonk. On March 14, 1944, a German court-martial sentenced him to six years...
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    National Redoubt (Belgium) (category Forts in Belgium)
    storage. Fort Breendonk was used as a transit camp for deportation to Germany. In Fort Breendonk (ca. 300) executions were carried out. Currently, Fort Breendonk...
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    free. Fort Breendonk was used by the Nazis as a political prison camp. It is kept in its World War II state and is open for visiting. Fort Breendonk and...
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