BREENDONK - MEMORIAL Also visited this one today, very impressive, will post some photographs tomorrow, if you ever get the change you should visit it
While were fighting up through Holland on the Market garden operation. We heard that a Nazi camp had been founf at BREENDONK..... Spelling?
Long corridor with the 26 chambers for the prisoners Filty strawbags, when you walked in it smelt musty, and the water was dripping from the roof, on the bunks
A very quick "wash" in the morning, then 8 to 10 hours hard labour, and hoping that you would survive the day. Prison cells inside a prison
Below some more pics: execution site, ration for hard labour and the guarddog 'Lump' which was often let loose on inmates. Regards, Marco
BREENDONK - MEMORIAL Eileen Younghusband mentions Breendonk. How she showed RAF personnel on a tour to teach them of the atrocities. One Woman's War: Amazon.co.uk: Eileen Younghusband: Books
For the most of the people in my region, the Breendonk fort was a field trip at one point or another in the school career. It used to be a cold, dark, frightening place when whe went there. Probably how it was 70 years ago, but absolutely not suited as a museum, or for educating young people. That's why I didn't wan't to go back there for almost twenty years. But because my wife never went there, we visited it a while back and I love what they done with the place! Defenitely worth a visit! Before it was used as a concentration camp, King Leopold used it as his HQ during the German invasion in 1940. Grt Tim
NAZI PERSECUTION IWM B10056 : Object description - Gestapo interrogation and detention centre at Breedonck in Belgium: A general exterior view of the German prison at Breedonck showing the wide moat which surrounds it. Photo taken by Sergeant Bert Hardy. Catalogued 19d9m1944. Breedonck - Search | Imperial War Museums
