Belgian Resistance

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Belgian resistance during World War II to the occupation of Belgium by Nazi Germany took on many different forms. "The Belgian Resistance", in a narrower sense, was the common name for the Réseau de Résistance or Resistance Network (RR), a group of partisans fighting the Nazi occupation of Belgium. Belgian resistance fighters performed various roles, including sabotaging Nazi installations and helping rescue downed Allied fliers.^[1]

Countess Andrée de Jongh organized the Comet Line (Le Reseau Comète) for escaped Allied soldiers. Albert Guérisse organized escape routes for downed Allied pilots under the alias of Patrick Albert "Pat" O'Leary; his escape line was dubbed the Pat Line.

Andree Antoine Dumon helped rescue 27 downed Allied fliers and worked as a courier for the resistance.^[2] Baron Georges Schnek, operating mainly in France and who was Jewish, helped provide false ID papers and ration coupons to fleeing Jewish families.^[3]

Georges Schoeters, co-founder and member of the FLQ, worked as a courier towards the end of the war until he was captured and imprisoned by the Nazis.

1 Popular Culture
2 See also
3 References
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[edit] Popular Culture

A 1977 film, called Secret Agents, dealt with the Belgian Resistance.

An American documentary was released in 2006 called "Last Best Hope" that premiered in Brussels for Prince Phillipe, the Belgian Army, and diplomats from 5 countries. Film makers David Grosvenor, Mat Hames, Ramona Kelly, and Walter Verstraeten presented the film to surviving Belgian Resistance members Andrée de Jongh, Raymond Itterbeek, Michou and Nadine Dumon, and many others. An edited version of the film aired in the U.S. on PBS nationwide in 2006 and 2007, and on European television in 2007.