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- German_occupation_of_Belgium_during_World_War_II abstract "The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II started with the Belgian surrender on 28 May 1940 and lasted until its liberation by Allied forces between September 1944 and February 1945. It was the second time that Belgium had been occupied by Germany in 25 years.After its successful invasion in May 1940, a German military government was established in Belgium, bringing the territory under the direct rule of the Wehrmacht. Thousands of Belgian soldiers became prisoners of war, and many were not released until 1945. The German administration in Belgium juggled the competing objectives of maintaining order while also extracting material from the territory to use in their war effort. They were assisted by the Belgian civil service, which believed that limited co-operation with the occupiers would result in the least damage to Belgian interests. Belgian Fascist parties, established before the war, in both Flanders and Wallonia collaborated much more actively with the occupiers, helping to recruit Belgians for the German army and were given more power themselves by the end of the war. Food and fuel were tightly rationed, and all official news was closely censored. Belgian civilians living near possible targets such as railway junctions were also in danger from Allied aerial bombing.From 1942, the occupation became more repressive. Systematic persecution and deportation of Jews to concentration camps began, as did repressive measures against potential political opposition. Despite vigorous protests, the Germans began deporting Belgian civilians to work in factories in Germany. At the same time, the resistance, which had been formed in late 1940, expanded vastly. From 1944, the SS and Nazi Party began to gain much greater control in Belgium, particularly after the military government was replaced in July by the Reichskommissariat Belgien-Nordfrankreich, a Nazi Civil Administration. In September 1944, Allied forces crossed into Belgium and quickly moved across the country. In December 1944, the territory was incorporated only de jure into the Greater German Reich as the new Reichsgaue of Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels and with its leaders already in exile in Germany, the territory was declared fully liberated in February 1945In total, 40,690 Belgians, over half of them Jews, were killed during the occupation and around 8% of the country's pre-war GDP was destroyed or moved out of the country.".
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- German_occupation_of_Belgium_during_World_War_II comment "The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) during World War II started with the Belgian surrender on 28 May 1940 and lasted until its liberation by Allied forces between September 1944 and February 1945. It was the second time that Belgium had been occupied by Germany in 25 years.After its successful invasion in May 1940, a German military government was established in Belgium, bringing the territory under the direct rule of the Wehrmacht.".
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