A German officer in a Belgian office at Mons railway station. The Wehrmacht Verkehrs Direktion aggressively takes over large parts of SNCB's strategic and operational business management. Source: private collection Paul Pastiels.
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Belgian Railways and deportations in WWII (2022-2023)

On 8...

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Wikibase Resistance (2021 - )

In brief

Initiated by the Cegesoma in the spring of 2021, the Wikibase...

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Les enfants de la répression (Children of Repression)

This book is the result of years of research by ...

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Papy était-il un héros?

Between 100,000 and 150,000 men and women actively took part in the struggle...

Papy était-il un nazi? Sur les traces d'un passé de guerre.
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Was Grandpa a Nazi?

Staff members from the State Archives / CegeSoma have made an essential contribution to this...

European Holocaust Research Infrastructure
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EHRI (2015 - )

EHRI is a European research project (Horizon 2020) that supports Holocaust scholars by building...

Bruxelles, ville libérée (1944-1945). Un autre regard sur la Libération.
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Bruxelles, ville libérée (1944-1945)

In the evening of 3 September 1944, Brussels is a liberated city....

La Wallonie libérée, 1944-1945.
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La Wallonie libérée, 1944-1945.

Based on a careful selection of little known photos, selected for their...

Procès des collaborateurs, 1945-1949, (Don RTBF), copyrights CegeSoma/Archives de l'Etat.
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BRAIN project POSTWAREX started (2020-2022)

A couple of weeks ago, the new research project POSTWAREX was started. This...

Armée Secrète.Zone V, secteur 5, Groupe D - Août 1944: cérémonie de prestation de Serment, Photo n° 27912 © CegeSoma/Archives de l'Etat
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Project People@War. A social history of the Second War and its Remembrance in Belgium. (2020-2030)

People @ War. A social history of the Second World War and its Remembrance...

Gerard Romsee, gouverneur de la Province du Limburg (1940), secretaire-général des Affaires intérieures (1941-1944), 1942-1943 - Photo n° 32716, droits réservésn rechten.
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New research project: The provincial administration of Limburg during the Second World War. (2020-2021)

The recent appearances of the Antwerp provincial governor Cathy Berx, in an effort to help...

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Journaux de Guerre 1940-1945 (Belgium)

This series of 11 issues dealing with Belgium at the beginning of the Second World War, begins...

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Journaux de Guerre (War Press) 1939-1945 (France)

Les journaux de Guerre (War Press) 1940-1945 (France) – 52 issues

Following...

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Bruxelles sous l'occupation, 1940-1944

This is the first volume of the "Cities at War" series. Lavishly illustrated...

 Anvers sous l'occupation, 1940-1945
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Anvers sous l'occupation, 1940-1945

Drawing largely from the rich photographic collections of CegeSoma (mainly...

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La Wallonie sous l'Occupation, 1940-1945

This album aims to provide a new synthesis of the German occupation of...

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