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	Fort Breendonk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fort Breendonk is a fortification built in 1906 as part of the second ring of defenses (the Reduit national) around the city of Antwerp (Belgium) The fort was used as a prisoncamp by the German occupiers during World War II.
		Fort Breendonk was first attacked on October 1, 1914 by howitzers located 5 to 6 kilometers out of range of the fort's own guns.
		The fort is a well preserved example of the prison camps operated by Nazi Germany during WW II.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/F/Fort-Breendonk.htm (421 words)

	Holocaust Revealed
		It is perhaps the only camp which remains totally intact because at first Breendonk was a military fort and the buildings are built using concrete.
		For the German occupation administration, Breendonk was a "waiting" camp (Auffangslager) designed to receive Jews and political prisoners before their transfer to Germany.
		The fort of Breendonk was transformed in National Memorial in 1947.
	www.ccg.org /_domain/holocaustrevealed.org/Belgium/Breendonk.htm (394 words)

	Virtual Fort Breendonk tour (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Fort Breendonk was built by the Belgian Government in 1906, but it has seen more military use as a German base than Belgian.
		Early in World War I, the Germans overwhelmed Breendonk using artillery that could fire from 5-6 miles outside the range of the Belgian guns; the Fort remained in German hands for the rest of the war.
		Fort Breendonk today is a museum and a monument to those who died there.
	www.europebyphoto.com /fortbreendonk-tour.html (234 words)

	War Museums - Fort Breendonk
		Fort Breendonk, situated to the south of Antwerp, was part of this system.
		During the Nazi occupation of Belgium, Fort Breendonk (which was completed in 1906 as part of the defence belt around Antwerp) served as a SS detention camp.
		Breendonk became synonymous with terror and brutality as the Nazis used it to lock-up and interrogate political prisoners (people of the resistance and generally everyone who the Germans thought of as "reichsfeindlich").
	www.warmuseums.nl /gal/115gal.htm (418 words)

	Gallery - Fort Breendonk - Photos
		Gate to the National Memorial of Fort Breendonk in Willebroek, Belgium.
		A moat was dug around the fort and the earth used to cover many of the original buildings.
		During the Nazi occupation, an earthen wall was built around the moat to cut off views of the fort from the outside.
	fcit.coedu.usf.edu /holocaust/resource/gallery/breen2.htm (427 words)

	WW II - European Landmarks and Memorials of World War 2 in Fullscreen QTVR 360 degree Panoramas
		Fort Breendonk, located in the centre of Belgium, is one of the smallest concentration camps of ww2 and, because of its size, probably also one of the worst.
		Recognised by 2 former inmates he is arrested in Vienna and executed in 1947 for the co-murder of 10 at Breendonk.
		Visit Fort Breendonk for real if you have the occasion, these pictures are no substitute.
	www.ww2panorama.org /panoramas/fort-breendonk (554 words)

	Promoting the Charitable Side of Globalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Part of the defense belt of Antwerp, it was situated between the forts of Liezele at the west and Waelhem at the east.
		The appearance of the fort was soon to change: the inmates were to put up a barbed-wire fence around the fort.
		The visitor to the "Breendonk Fort National Memorial" is confronted with the most striking and best preserved historical record of the Nazi terror in West Europe.
	www.kbfus.org /example5.htm (1336 words)

	Breendonk Concentration Camp (Belgium) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Allied troops arrived at Breendonk on September 3rd 1944.
		It is located not far from the centre of Willebroek, a small village about 15 miles from Brussels.
		The Memorial is closed on January 1st and on December 25th (mailing address: Mémorial National du Fort de Breendonk, B - 2830, Willebroek, Belgium Tel.: +32 (03) 886 62 09).
	www.jewishgen.org /ForgottenCamps/Camps/BreendEng.html (393 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - Brave Little Belgium - Fortress Antwerp
		The plan also called for the strengthening of the old brick forts with concrete, and for the establishment of new battery positions near Doel, able to fire from the lower Scheldt to the Dutch border.
		To add to all of these weaknesses, the forts were garrisoned by 65,000 of the oldest classes of troops, undertrained, poorly armed and poorly supplied.
		At one point, one of the forts was seen by the Germans to explode in a sheet of flame.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/antwerp.htm (4341 words)

	Fort Liezele - 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the evening of October 8, the Germans attacked the redoubt, but were driven off by the fire of the 15 cm turret and the traditore battery of the fort.
		The German breakthrough in the sector Walem-Lier and the retreat of the Belgian army isolated the forts of the 4th sector, including Fort Liezele.
		Today, the fort is in very good condition and many rooms are restored, including interior, showing the use of the Fort in 1914, 1940 or in the 50s.
	meltingpot.fortunecity.com /utah/894/lizele.htm (405 words)

	Racism and fascism in Europe today
		In 1906 the Belgian military built a fort at Breendonk, on the road from Brussels to Antwerp.
		Breendonk was a medieval torture house, replete with pulley blocks, thumb screws, red-hot iron bars, wooden wedges, head vices and as a modern touch, electric needles.
		It is a signof the times that 50 years later they have re-emerged from the political wilderness with a new generation of leaders, brazenly peddling their message of hate.
	home.mira.net /~sp/magazine/jun97/fascism.htm (991 words)

	Expatriate Online Belgium - Belgian News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		06/09/04- At the fort of Breendonk (Antwerp province), King Albert II attended the ceremony last Saturday on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of our country.
		At the fort, prisoners were waiting to be deported to the concentration camps in Germany during the 2nd WW.
		At the fort of Breendonk in Antwerp province a modest commemoration took place during which the king paid tribute to the victims of the nazi-terror.
	www.expatriate-online.com /news/newsstory.cfm?story_no=994 (498 words)

	News
		It was part of the defense belt of Antwerp between the neighbouring forts of Liezele on the west side and Walhem on the east side.
		So Breendonk was chosen as the King’s residence and the army headquarters in case Belgium was invaded again.
		The fort was used to gather prisoners who were to be deported and so became one of the main buildings for the Gestapo in Belgium during the occupation.
	www.ecoles.cfwb.be /ebshape/anglais/news.htm (3649 words)

	Promoting the Charitable Side of Globalization (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Throughout World War II, the Gestapo used Breendonk as an interrogation center and concentration camp holding a total of 5,000 prisoners during the duration of the war.
		"Breendonk has been left unchanged from the way it was during the war," says Henry Howard, a Holocaust Scholar.
		Breendonk is only 60 feet off the highway, yet the thick walls prevent any noise from the road from penetrating.
	www.kbfus.org /example8.htm (1027 words)

	Guided Travel with European Contemporary History Tours.
		Fort Breendonk, our first stop, is close to Antwerp, the Belgian Sea Harbor.
		Built and used during the First World War, it was modified by the Germans and used as a cruel interrogation center and also as a transit camp during the Second World War.
		Among many things at Fort Breendonk is also a 'quiet area' where a number of urns are kept.
	www.eurohistour.com /southern2.htm (769 words)

	Camp Breendonk :: Travel Tidbits
		The fort, which can be seen from the motor way, is located in the town of Willebroek.
		Begun in 1906 as part of a defensive ring used by the Belgian Army to protect Brussels and Antwerp, it was used as a concentration camp during the German occupation of Belgium during WW II.
		The prisoners removed 300,000 cubic yards of soil from the fort, then created an earthen wall around the moat, to cut off views of the fort from the outside.
	www.travel-tidbits.com /tidbits/002026.shtml (388 words)

	Belgian fortresses - Forts belges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This information also enables me to better target your interest and thus to improve the contents of the site.
		Barchon - Armament of the Fort in 1893
		Mobilization of the fort of Fleron August 1914
	www.thissen-laboratories.com /forts/index.php?p=255 (143 words)

	bowieNet.discourse.blogs
		Breendonk was a "waiting" camp designed to receive Jews and political prisoners before their transfer to Germany.
		At first, because it was an actual fort, conditions were tolerable, according to the guide.
		The number of prisoners at Breendonk was small.
	www.davidbowie.com /bin/user/beff/blogDate=2005-04-30 (387 words)

	Zakiya's Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		On my second day in Belgium, I took a trip to the Fort of Breendonk.
		During World War II, once Belgium fell to the Nazis, it was used as a prison camp.
		The fort had mounds of dirt surrounding the walls as extra protection, and the prisoners there spent their days digging Breendonk out and transporting the dirt across the moat to make a new wall around the perimeter so that no one could see into the fort.
	www.wam.umd.edu /~sdzat86/Belgium.html (279 words)

	:: content :: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It is one of the world's largest ports, the world's diamond processing center and a true fashion city.
		Therefore during the first semester the Cultural Package includes a historical tour of the center in combination with a visit to Fort Breendonk, a prisoner's camp that is the symbol of the Nazi terror in Belgium during WWII, located not so far from Antwerp.
		Numerous videos, photographs and descriptions as well as background sounds enrich the visit and give a feel of what Breendonk used to be.
	www.arts.kuleuven.be /pecs/sub/pecs/info_students/info_aceptedstudents/content_cpantbreendonk.html (250 words)

	Amery: a biographical introduction
		Whatever happened to him, he believed, would have merely to be "incorporated into the relevant literature, as it were." But nothing could prepare him for the experience of torture.
		Imprisoned in Fort Breendonk, Améry was interrogated by the SS for several days.
		They are held together not by careful organization but by a common theme, which Améry describes as "the subjective state of the victim." The title essay explores the fate of the mind in Auschwitz.
	www-english.tamu.edu /pers/fac/myers/amery.html (2909 words)

	Global Beer Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In the morning we drove to Breendonk, where the brewery Moortgat is situated.
		It is known not only for its brewery but also for its Fort, a former army camp, that was used as a prisoners’ camp in WW2.
		After the visit, we drove to the restaurant which is situated next to the fort of Breendonk and carries the same name
	www.globalbeer.com /web/body_pages/belgium/Trip2003/Day4.html (413 words)

	Day Trips & Excurions - November 2001 - Antwerp, Belgium Travel Guide - BootsnAll.com
		Built in 1906 as part of the ring of forts around Antwerp, Breendonk is best known for its function as an SS prison camp during World War II.
		Today there's an excellent museum, open from 9.30am to 5pm from October to March, and to 6pm from April to September (you have to be there at least 45 minutes before closing time to be let in; tickets cost BEF120/EUR€2.97).
		For more info visit the Breendonk Homepage (www.breendonk.be/), call 03/886.62.09 or e-mail info@breendonk.be.
	www.bootsnall.com /cgi-bin/gt/europetravelguides/antwerp/nov01antwerp.shtml (469 words)

	ForumGarden - View Single Post - Little Known Facts Regarding World War 2
		Situated some twelve miles south of Antwerp, the fort was part of an six mile long belt of defence fortifications protecting Belgian's largest port.
		The commandant at Breendonk, SS Sturmbannführer Philip Johann-Adolf Schmitt, was arrested and tried for inhuman behaviour at the fort.
		In 1947, the fort was renamed the Fort Breendonk National Memorial in memory of all those who suffered and lost their lives there.)
	www.forumgarden.com /forums/showpost.php?p=3904&postcount=2 (8070 words)

	Forum UNESCO - University and Heritage 10th International Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Nevertheless, there are a number of sites in Europe, which constituted the killing ground of Jews and non-Jews, which now serve as memorials for both Jews and non-Jews.
		This presentation will analyze four such sites: the Ninth Fort in Kaunas, Lithuania, Fort Breendonk in Willebroek, near Antwerp; the Museum of the Resistance in Blois, in the Loire Valley in France; and the site of the Natzweiller-Struthof concentration camp in Alsace, some thirty-one miles from Strasbourg, France.
		I wish to explore how well wartime history is explained and contextualised in these memorials, and in particular, to evaluate the extent to which they have been able to challenge national and local conventions in depicting and recalling the memory of both Jewish and non-Jewish victims.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /unescolandscapes/abstracts/abstract.php?id=19 (414 words)

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	The educational encyclopedia, world war II, history of the holocaust: photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Holocaust pictures exhibition a mass execution of Jews in Nazi occupied Soviet Union, SS women at the Belsen camp, scenes of horror at Nazi concentration camps, gas chamber inventory, cites shower heads and gas tight door
		Images for reflection images of the Jewish Holocaust from the camera of amateur photographer and world traveler Scott L. Sakansky, germany, Auschwitz, Belzec, Birkenau, Buchenwald, Dora/Nordhausen, Majdanek, Mauthausen, Ninth Fort, Paneriai, Ravensbruck, Sachsenhausen, Small Fortress, Theresienstadt, Treblinka, Umschlagplatz, Warsaw Ghetto Memorial, Yad Vashem, Zamosc, Sakansky
		Photographs documenting the holocaust in Hungary when the Soviet Army captured Budapest on January 17-18, 1945, it was too late to save the lives of 564,500 Jews who had been sent to the various death-camps run by the Nazis
	users.telenet.be /educypedia/education/holocaustphotos.htm (393 words)

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		Collections Historiques du Château Fort des XIe-XVe s
		Old Fort Meade Museum and Historic Research Association
		U.S. Army Signal Corps and Fort Gordon Museum
	www.museumnetwork.com /asppages/PageMenu.asp?MT=67 (752 words)

	VirtualTourist.com - diamonddog's Breendonk Travel Page
		You can see all tips for this location by clicking the 'Travel Guide' at the top, right of the page.
		A really chilling memorial place the fort of Breendonk.
		Left a big impression on me. In a more pleasant way, so did the Duvel brewery.
	members.virtualtourist.com /m/2ed2e/57550 (134 words)

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