Fort Breendonk
About Fort Breendonk
Fort Breendonk is a army fortification situated at Breendonk, close to Mechelen, in Belgium that is excellent known for its role as a Nazi jail camp for the duration of the German career of Belgium at some point of World War II. Fort Breendonk changed into at the start built for the Belgian military between 1906-13 as a part of the second ring of defenses of the National Redoubt protective the crucial port-city of Antwerp. It become protected by a five-metre thick layer of soil for defense towards bombings, a water-filled moat and measured 656 by using 984 ft.
During World War II, the fort became requisitioned by using the Germans as a jail camp for detaining Belgian political dissidents, captured resistance individuals and Jews. Although technically a prison in place of a attention camp, the Fort become infamous for its prisoners' negative dwelling situations and for the usage of torture. Most prisoners who had been detained at the camp were later transferred to large awareness camps in Eastern Europe.
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