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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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    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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    ISBN 978-1-4331-0581-4. "Témoignages". Breendonk Memorial (in French). Nationaal Gedenkteken van het Fort van Breendonk. Retrieved 29 January 2022. Kesaris...
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    Retrieved 3 November 2012. Van der Wilt, Olivier. Le projet pédagogique du Mémorial National du Fort de Breendonk. p. 1. "Units of the Belgian armed...
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    Merksem (redirect from Fort Merksem)
    Resistance fighters were deported to the nearby concentration camp of Breendonk. The road currently known as Bredabaan (Breda Road), once a major northern...
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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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    infirmary was set up in the prison during the war, allowing prisoners from Fort Breendonk to be treated there. After the war, the leaders of the collaborators...
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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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    German administration established a prison camp in Fort Breendonk, a former Belgian military fort. Inmates were largely political prisoners, though a...
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