Was this there during the German occupation?
I’d imagine they would give you instructions like ‘check in with guard post or something’
Is it just there as a gimmick by the museum?
by Shifu_1
Was this there during the German occupation?
I’d imagine they would give you instructions like ‘check in with guard post or something’
Is it just there as a gimmick by the museum?
by Shifu_1
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I’d think people were a lot less stupid back then.
I’m sure that when you see your country get invaded and massacred by Germans, you need little signage to convince the local population that maybe they don’t want to wander in the death camp of said invader.
In wartime they didnt sugarcoat stuff no.
They didnt put signs “please see a guard to get helped”
It was just “comply or die”
It’s not a gimmic by the museum, it was reality gor people who lived in that era.
Source: my greatgrandfather served in flemish resistance
Is this a serious question? If you visited Breendonk you should know prisoners were tortured and executed by sadistic guards. They weren’t the kind of people who would kindly ask you to check in with the guard post.
When visiting this place with or school i found my great grandfather on the wall of names
>like check in with the guard post
Do you even know what was going on in here? If you needed to arrive here they brought you here and otherwise if you got this close you’d get shot on sight
It was there during the occupation. Often family members or friends would attempt to sollicit at the gate to see their friend, SO or family member, only to be told off by the guards to, gently said, “go on your way”.
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It was also to avoid prying eyes to see what was going on at the fort. Same reason why Philip Schmitt wanted the sand barrier built, to prevent people that would go on the road from/to Brussels to see inside the fort.
Fijn wel dat ze het in de drie officiële landstalen weergeven