Breendonk was an internment camp in German-occupied Belgium. The site had originally been built in the early twentieth century to serve as a Belgian fortress. After Germany conquered Belgium in 1940, the Germans turned Breendonk into an internment camp. Fewer than 4,000 prisoners were confined there during its existence.
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