Overview
- Caption
- A large crowd parades through a city street carrying a sign the reads: Vlaanderen and de Vlamigen (Flanders for the Flemish).
- Date
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1914 - 1918
- Locale
- Flanders Belgium?
- Photo Credit
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Peter Lande
- Event History
- The Flemish Movement during WWI saw some Flemish Belgians welcome German occupiers as socalled "Germanic brothers," who would liberate them from French domination. Under German occupation Dutch was made the official administrative language and other measures were introduced to capitalize on Flemish-Walloon discontent.
Rights & Restrictions
- Photo Source
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Copyright: United States Holocaust Memorial MuseumProvenance: Peter LandeSource Record ID: Collections: 2015.579.1
Keywords & Subjects
- Photo Designation
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INTERWAR EUROPE -- Belgium
- Record last modified:
- 2016-05-16 00:00:00
- This page:
- https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/pa1168042