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Belgian radio (in Dutch Radio Belgium , in English Belgium radio ), was a clandestine Belgian radio station that had emitted from London during the Second World War. Radio Belgium was placed under the aegis of the Belgian government in exile and was attached to the European services of the BBC. It is also the name of a private radio station that existed before , year of the creation of the INR, which has become RTB then RTBF.

The , Belgium, neutral until then, is invaded by German troops. At the end of the 18 -day campaign , the Belgian army sets up arms. The country is busy. The Belgian government goes into exile in France and then in London. The national media whose INR are muzzled by the occupier. Many employees follow the Belgian government in exile [ 3 ] , [ 4 ] .

Radio Belgium, Radio Privé (advertising is read by Leopold Braconi, the first Belgian speaker) founded in 1923 ceased to issue As the INR was created. A chain bearing the same name began to issue the [ 5 ] . The French -speaking service was placed under the direction of Victor de Laveleye (former liberal minister) while the Dutch -speaking section was led by Jan Moedwil (his real name Fernand Geersens) [ 5 ] . A news agency, Interbel, was also created, it resumed the functions of the Belga agency created before the war [ 5 ] .

The , the former Minister Victor de Laveleye who has become a radio host, launches the V campaign on the air (she will be taken over by Winston Churchill), inviting the Belgians to use it in Belgium occupied [ 5 ] , [ 6 ] . You have an interest , he said on Radio Belgium, Note how many you want to issue. All the Patriots of Belgium must have a sign of rallying, that they multiply this sign around them, that by seeing it inscribed everywhere they know that they are a multitude. And that the occupant, too, seeing this sign, always the same, repeat himself indefinitely, understands that he is surrounded, by an immense crowd of Belgian citizens who are impatiently awaiting his first flexibility, await his first failure [ 7 ] .

It is also to him that we owe one of the most famous slogans of Radio Belgium dating from Verdun: “Courage, we will have them, the boches” [ 8 ] . In 1942, General de Gaulle made a speech on Radio Belgium, welcoming Franco-Belgian friendship [ 9 ] .

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Although parked by the occupier, Radio Belgium was listened to by many Belgians who abandoned the radios “approved” by the occupier as Radio Brussels which delivered propagandate messages [ 3 ] . The journalist and resistant Paul Lévy will also work for this radio.

Radio Belgium shows will occupy as their success grows an increasingly important place in BBC programs. Radio Belgium thus issued at the start of 9 p.m. to 9:15 p.m., alternating, one evening in French, one evening in Dutch. In the spring of 1941, she issued in the morning and at 5.30 p.m. so to offer listeners at least one program per day in their language. In , the BBC issues a daily program of Radio Belgium in French at 7:15 p.m. and a second in Dutch at 8:30 p.m. [ 7 ] .

Perceiving the potential effects that Radio Belgium could have on the control of information in conquered territory, the Germans quickly created radio collaborationist stations, also intended for a Belgian auditor. They had issued since the ex-in which they had taken control (Radio Brussels, Zender Brussel). The Germans also tried to blur the programs of Radio Belgium and made his listening illegal from [ 5 ]

At the end of the war, the Belgian government created a new radio station Belgian national broadcasting (RNB) which emitted from London and then from Léopoldville [ 5 ] .

  1. ↑ Christian Laporte, the Belgian V-Brevet signs Victor de Laveleye, evening, September 1, 1994
  2. ↑ DUTRY-SOINNE TINOU, London’s unknown: War Journal of a Belgian, 1940–1945 (vol. 1), Racine, Brussels, 2006, (ISBN  2873864834 )
  3. ↑ a et b Céline Rasse, Uniform waves: German radio propaganda in occupied Belgium , University of Namur, (ISBN  2870377088 )
  4. ↑ Broadcasting in Belgium before 1955 , Thought and men
  5. ↑ a b c d e and f Paul Aron, José Gotovitch, Dictionary of the Second World War in Belgium, Editions André Versaille, Brussels, 2008, p. 372-373 (ISBN  9782874950018 )
  6. ↑ Guillaume Jacquemyns; Struye, Paul, Belgium under German occupation: 1940–1944, ed. Complex, Brussels, 2002. (ISBN  978-2-87027-940-3 )
  7. ↑ a et b Here is the BBC
  8. ↑ in Dutch: “But we will still get them, the sleeves”
  9. ↑ Catherine Lanneau, the French unknown. France and French-speaking Belgians 1944-1945, p.i.e.-little, Brussels
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