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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4314219, member: 2844&quot;]Belgium had a substantial number of collaborators, there was even a Flemish Hitlerjugend, maybe a Walloon Hitlerjugend as well. Collaboration tore families apart.</p><p>Apparently it is still a sensitive issue with the descendants, so I can see how this footage could cause uproar in some circles. I have no idea how powerful those circles are, are they linked to the Vlaams Blok (Flemish Block, inportant political party) for instance?</p><p>According to some researchers the history of collaboration still influences Belgian politics to this day.</p><p>I think it is best to let the people at the Antwerp City Archives guide you in all this.</p><p><br /></p><p>I would like to emphasize that things weren&#039;t one sided in Belgium, but that was exactly the problem for many families.</p><p>And there were true heroes who fought against the Nazis, my relative Gaston Léger (whose photo is in one of the threads here) was one of them.</p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=11044]@Requiem[/USER] , if you are interested in the subject, the excellent novel &#039;Het verdriet van België&#039; (The Sorrow of Belgium) by Hugo Claus gives you an idea.</p><p>There is also the book &#039;Onverwerkt verleden. Collaboratie en repressie in België 1942-1952&#039; by historians Luc Huyse and Steven Dhondt.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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