Breendonk

<p>A sign outside the <a href="/narrative/5377/en">Breendonk</a> transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.</p>

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<p>A sign outside the <a href="/narrative/5377/en">Breendonk</a> transit camp warning that trespassers will be shot. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.</p>

<p>A postwar photograph of the <a href="/narrative/5377/en">Breendonk</a> internment camp in <a href="/narrative/5505/en">Belgium</a>.</p>
<p>In August 1940, the Germans, who had occupied Belgium in May of that year, turned the fortress into a detention camp.</p>

<p>View of the courtyard in the <a href="/narrative/5377/en">Breendonk</a> fortress prison where prisoners lined up for roll call. Breendonk, Belgium, postwar.</p>
<p>This image is taken from a series of snapshots sold on the site after the end of World War II. </p>

<p>Entrance to the <a href="/narrative/5377/en">Breendonk</a> internment camp. Breendonk, Belgium, 1940-1944.</p>

<p>Three SS officers at the Breendonk internment camp: from left, First Lieutenant Hans Kantschuster, Master Sergeant Walter Mueller, and Second Lieutenant Artur Prauss. Breendonk, Belgium, between 1940 and 1944.</p>

The barbed wire fence that enclosed the Breendonck concentration camp.

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