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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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  • 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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    der Wilt, Olivier. Le projet pédagogique du Mémorial National du Fort de Breendonk. p. 1. "Units of the Belgian armed forces in the United Kingdom 1940–1945"...
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    History of Belgium (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    (conservateur du Mémorial national du fort de Breendonk), Le projet pédagogique du Mémorial National du Fort de Breendonk, p. 1. John Nichol and Tony Rennell...
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    Conception. The city is subject of the song De Brug van Willebroek by Wannes Van de Velde. Fort Breendonk "Wettelijke Bevolking per gemeente op 1 januari...
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    Dujardin & Van den Wijngaert 2010, p. 74. dossier pédagogique: Le fort de Breendonk: le camp de la terreur nazie en Belgique pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale...
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  • Antwerp while leaving a train from Brussels on 27 July 1942 and sent to Fort Breendonk, where she worked as a secretary thanks to her German language ability...
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    Jospa's husband Herz Jospa was arrested in June 1943, detained in Fort Breendonk, then deported to Buchenwald concentration camp in May 1944. She thought...
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    wrote about both her (and her friend, Miriam Sokol)'s imprisonment in Fort Breendonk. Elizabeth Depelsenaire (née Sneyers) grew up in the bourgeois milieu...
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