Increasingly daring, they also attack several factories of metallurgy and heavy industry whose production is diverted in favor of the German war effort. Finally comes the time for assassinations and summary executions, after death under the torture of the communist deputy Montois Georges Cordier. In retaliation, supporters of supporters fell without summons many German collaborators, rexists and military.
It is the beginning of a real escalation of violence. The German military authority reacts to these actions of revenge of supporters with an unrivaled ferocity, encouraging its various police services to use methods of rare wild. Torture, psychological pressures, hostage -taking, deportations, forced labor, death sentences …: German repression policy does not know any limits. Hundreds of supporters, men and women, are arrested and very dearly pay their commitment to the armed struggle against the occupier …
You will know more by listening to the 5 new episodes of the podcast “4 years of resistance“. A series from the collection Dark Belgiumproduced by Eric Loze and Antoine Duwaerts, with the participation of Jonathan Rem
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