Belgium

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Belgium is a small country in northwestern Europe. The country shares borders with France, Germany, and the Netherlands and is a traditional ally of Britain.

[edit] Beligum in Southern Victory

German general Alfred von Schlieffen's plan for invading France, the strategy Germany used in the Great War, called for the violation of Belgian neutrality. Belgium therefore became a member of the Entente, but it was overrun and occupied by Germany early in the Great War.

Belgium remained under German military occupation for the period between the wars much the way Canada remained occupied by the United States. In the opening moves of the Second Great War in Europe, Anglo-French forces drove the Germans out of Belgium in 1941 and were greeted as liberators by the population. The Germans began reconquering Belgium from the Entente in late 1943.

In 1944, a British bomber carrying a superbomb was intercepted by German jet fighters and shot down in Belgian territory. The superbomb it carried detonated harmlessly between Ghent and Bruges, essentially ending Britain's hope of carrying on the war against Germany.

[edit] Belgium in Worldwar

Belgium was conquered by Germany and absorbed into the Greater German Reich at the beginning of World War II, shortly before the arrival of the Race's Conquest Fleet. Under the terms of the Peace of Cairo, it was recognized as German territory.

[edit] Belgium in "Uncle Alf"

Belgium fell to Germany late in 1914, and remained occupied for the next generation. Adolf Hitler assumed the identity of a merchant from Antwerp while undercover in Lille in 1929.