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40th year  -  N° 40                 Sunday, 9 February 2025         Antwerpen		
I'm Beginning to See the Light
Breendonk KZ

Breendonk, Antwerpen, Belgium.

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  1. Friday 20th of September 1940 (x) — The one and only concentration camp for Belgium is inaugurated by SS-Sturmbannführer and commandant of Fort Breendonk Philipp Schmitt
    Initially prisoners were petty criminals, people deemed anti-social or trespassers of the new race laws. Later on resistance fighters, political prisoners and innocent hostages were detained as well. Another section was used as a transit camp for Jews being sent to death camps such as Auschwitz.