Hitler’s Belgian Partner
Robert Paxton, 27 January 1994
Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement
by Martin Conway.
Yale, 364 pp., £30, October 1993,0 300 05500 5 Show More
by Martin Conway.
Yale, 364 pp., £30, October 1993,
“... order to save manpower. The Belgian élite wanted to avoid repeating the refusals of 1914-18, when King Albert I had held out heroically in an unoccupied corner of his country, while the vast majority of his citizens froze and starved under direct military occupation. The economy was closed down for what had been expected to be a brief hiatus, and the only ... ”