As one example some of the 'attitudes' that prevailed at the time: On 13 April 1944, King Leopold III [a French native speaker] ordered Paul-Emile Janson, the Minister of Justice, and Robert De Foy, the head of the Sûreté de l'Etat, the Belgian secret service, to draw up lists of 'suspect Belgians and foreigners.' Those on the lists were to be arrested, extradited or 'placed in concentration camps' as soon as national security required. (General State Archives Brussels (GSA) microfilm 2081/1, Minutes cabinet meeting, 8 May 1940.)
The prisoners were stowed in railway wagons bound for France . One victim later recalled: 'It took our train seven days to get from Brussels to Orléans. Under a torrid heat, locked up with 40 people, including women and children, in a hermetically sealed wagon where we had to stay day and night, we suffered from hunger, a lack of air and especially from thirst. We were left for 43 hours without receiving even a drop of water. We were submitted to the brutality of the soldier? accompanying the escort and in many stations we were almost lynched by citizens who had been led to believe that we were parachutists and spies. Many people died en route. (Quoted in J.Gérard-Libois and J.Gotovitch, L'An 40: La Belgique occupée. Brussels : CRISP, 1971, p.114.)
Those who arrived in the South of France were rounded up in Franco-Belgian concentration camps. A German report written three months later states that in Antwerp alone 3,000 suspects were arrested. The majority of them were Jews, about 400 were (non-Jewish) German citizens and 50 were Flemish-Nationalists. Many prominent Flamingants were gaoled, including the former Aktivist leader August Borms. (German Records of Alexandria, 501/102, Wehrmacht Administration Activity Report nr. 7, 4 Aug. 1940, p. 49.)
Late on the evening of 20 May, the first German Panzers rolled into Abbeville at the Franco-Belgian border. French soldiers immediately massacred 21 Belgian prisoners that had not been expatriated yet, including the Canadian, the Dutch grandmother, a German Catholic monk, a Hungarian Jew, a Czech Jew, a Communist Brussels town councillor and the Flemish politician George Van Severen and his deputy. Most were shot, but others, including the grandmother, were savagely stabbed to death with bayonets.
Thousands of civilians imprisoned by the Belgian authorities in France were released by the Germans in the course of the following weeks, including a large number of Jews. They were the only Jews ever liberated by Hitler's army. The Wehrmacht allowed them to return to Belgium . However, 3,537 Jews who had entered Belgium from abroad were kept imprisoned and send to murdered in Auschwitz. They were the only Auschwitz victims who had been arrested on the order of a Western government.
After the war, the Belgian authorities refused to investigate the matter of the deportations. (Nor did anyone ever investigated ,a story worthy in itself , how and on whose orders the Belgian secret service had assisted Heydrich before the war.) Belgium never apologized for what happened, it even refused to repatriate the bodies of the 21 victims in Abbeville. Unlike Cardinal Verdier of Paris , the Belgian Cardinal Van Roey never protested against the persecution of the Jews . Worse, he disbanded the Katholiek Bureau voor Israel , an Antwerp Catholic organisation that tried to help the fugitives. (Max Vanden Berg to Mgr. Kerkhofs, 21 Sept. 1942, in Maxim Steinberg , L'Etoile et le fusil: La traque des juifs, 1942-1944, Brussels,1986. vol. II, p. 201.)
In a later letter to Adolf Hitler Leopold’s wife, Lilian in fact wrote that Leopold was “loyal to the Führer.” (Albert De Jonghe, De laatste boodschap van Kiewitz namens koning Leopold III voor Hitler, 15 juni 1944; Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Filologie en Geschiedenis, LXV, 2 ,1987, pp. 274-300. pp. 299-300.)
On 19 November, King Leopold was received on the Obersalzberg. Hitler pampered his guest. The Gestapo even provided call-girls. According to Leopold, the very first thing the Führer said when he welcomed him was: 'I have a very great respect for you and for your dynasty, because your father has always treated Germany justly.' (Leopold III to Willequet, 22 Nov. 1976, in J. Willequet Albert Ie", Roi des Belges: Un portrait politique et humain. Brussels , 1979., p. 172.) source
After the war, the Frog-speaking king didn't face execution or even jail although he had collaborated with Adolf Hitler way more closely than any Fleming ever had.
The truth is that the Flems never managed to suck Nazi cock nearly as brilliantly as the Wallunatics did during WWII. Take for instance Leon Degrelle:
Severely wounded at Cherkasy in 1944, Degrelle steadily climbed in the Schutzstaffel hierarchy after the inclusion of Walloons in the Waffen-SS, being made a SS-Obersturmbannführer in the early months of 1945. He received the Ritterkreuz, a unique distinction for a foreigner, from Hitler's hands (he later claimed Hitler told him "if I had a son, I wish he'd resemble you").source
Of course, Walloon collaborators, just like their beloved French-speaking king of German ancestry, got scot-free after the war, and very few of them faced a tribunal. However, the Nazi Walloons seized the opportunity of war's end to massacre and harass many Flems who had never collaborated in any way with the German authorities, just because they spoke Dutch rather than French. Degrelle, in contrast, remained free, "would frequently appear in public, and in private meetings in a white uniform featuring his Waffen SS decorations, while expressing his pride over his close contacts and "thinking bond" with Adolf Hitler" and died in his bed at the venerable age of 87:
[Degrelle's] total escape of repression and trial stands in stark contrast to the repression forced on collaborators in the Flemish part of Belgium after the war.
ibidem
The Vlaams Belang is committed to rehabilitating the memory of all those Flemings who were unjustly decried as collaborateurs or "stormtroopers" as a pretext to kill or harass them after the war. Said harassment and persecutions lasted for decades after the end of WWII, while Walloon collaborateurs, more often than not, led successful careers within Belgian state structures.
Belgium was not denazified after WWII. Like in Germany and France, most Nazis and collaborateurs stayed in office, and many fascist laws were not abrogated.
Belgium, France and Germany never stopped conducting pro-Arab and anti-Jewish foreign policies after WWII. They are covert Nazi states that must be dismantled right now, and so must their political construct from hell, the European Union!
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