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Fort Breendonk

d. 1947

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Photograph at the Fort Breendonk war memorial

Former Belgian Army fortress used by the SS as a prison camp (Auffanglager Breendonk) from 1940 to 1944. Now a national memorial to the victims of Nazi occupation in Belgium.

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  • Wikidata, available under the CC0 1.0 Universal dedication.
  • © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database Licence.
  • Historic England, National Heritage List for England, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0. War memorial records are drawn from open community datasets (OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, NHLE) - never from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, which is excluded.

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