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Belgian veteran remembers US Army's WWII sacrifice
WASHINGTON — Paul Goffin has spent much of his adult life solemnly remembering the American Army Soldiers who fought to free his home country, Belgium, during World War II. Yet, it wasn’t ...
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The beginnings of USAID can be traced to a famine in Belgium
“The people are actually starving and living in ruins,” the Evening Star of Washington reported on Nov. 29, 1914, in a story about the famine and destruction in Belgium during World War ...
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Letters from the Dec. 23 Prior Lake American
This Christmas marks the 62nd anniversary of the Defense of Bastogne, Belgium, during World War II’s “Battle of the Bulge.” The small city’s defense was left primarily to the paratroopers ...
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Belgium’s railway Holocaust report criticized for failing survivors
The SNCB deported over 25,000 Jews and 350 Roma from Mechelen to extermination camps on 28 convoys during World War II. An investigation ... including Belgian Holocaust survivors living abroad ...