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This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.
Incumbents[edit]
- Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)[1]
- Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
- Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
- Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder
Events[edit]
- 13 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.[2]: 854
- 17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic.[2]: 854
- 20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps.[2]: 855
- 27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces.[2]: 856
- 7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers.[2]: 854
- 10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal.[2]: 854
- 15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.[2]: 854
- 5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians.[2]: 855
- 19 April – Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 20 April – Resistance attack on the office for conscription of compulsory labour destroys a large part of their files.[2]: 855
- 16 July – Honoré Van Waeyenbergh, Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for refusing to give the occupying forces access to university enrolment records.[2]: 855
- 6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock.[2]: 854
- 7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings.[2]: 856
- 9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir[2]: 856
- 6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.[2]: 854
Arts and architecture[edit]
- Performances
- 17 March – First performance of Georges Sion's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.[2]: 854
Births[edit]
- 6 March – Noël Devisch, businessman
- 23 March – Marva Mollet, singer
- 5 April – Miet Smet, politician
- 14 April – Norbert De Cuyper, politician
- 25 April – Jean-Jacques Cassiman, geneticist
- 3 June – André Ernotte, film director (died 1999)
- 2 July – Walter Godefroot, cyclist
- 5 July – André Smets, politician (died 2019)
- 1 September – Claude De Bruyn, road safety advocate (died 2020)
- 1 October – Raymond Langendries, politician
- 5 October – Josly Piette, politician
- 1 November – Salvatore Adamo, singer
- 25 November – Victor Albert, politician (died 2005)
- 1 December – Danny Huwé, journalist (died 1989)
Deaths[edit]
- 27 January – Louis Fonsny, collaborationist newspaper editor.[2]: 854
- 15 April – Paul Colin (born 1895), collaborationist art critic
- 10 May – Arnaud Fraiteur (born 1924), resistance fighter
- 16 August – Jean de Selys Longchamps (born 1912), fighter pilot
- 8 October – Gustave De Smet (born 1877), painter
References[edit]
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