Belgium: WW2 Medal for the armed resistance
against the Nazis.
The medal was instituted in 1946 and was
awarded to the members of the Belgian Armed
Resistance.
More than 70.000 Belgians participated in the
various groups of Resistance during the
German Occupation. Aside from sabotage of
military infrastructure in the country and assas-
sinations of collaborators, these groups also
published large numbers of underground
newspapers, gathered intelligence and
maintained various escape networks that
helped Allied airmen escape from German
occupied Europe.
The Belgian Resistance smuggled at least
3.500 downed airmen back to England at a
time when there was a great shortage of
aircrews while some estimates put the number
of resistance members killed, at over 19.000.
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WW2 1939 -1945
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