![A view of the Breendonk internment camp. Breendonk, Belgium, postwar. [LCID: 41204]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/bafa4224-c0ad-41be-b89e-f13056fc25e8.jpeg)
A postwar photograph of the Breendonk internment camp in Belgium.
In August 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Belgium in May of that year, turned the fortress into a detention camp.
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