Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond
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The Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond, widely known by its initialism VNV, was a Flemish nationalist political party active in Belgium between 1933 and 1945. It became the leading force of political collabor
Hendrik Elias who led the VNV after Staf Declercq's death, pictured in 1942
In World War II, many individuals, organizations, and client and puppet states engaged in wartime collaboration with the Axis powers, "out of conviction, desperation, or under coercion". Nationalists
Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond
…widely known by its initialism VNV, was a Flemish nationalist political party active in Belgium between 1933 and 1945. It became the leading force of political collaboration in Flanders during the German occupation of Belgium in World War II. Authoritarian by inclination, the party advocated the creation of a "Greater…
A Vlaamsch Nationaal Verbond (VNV) meeting in Ghent in 1941
Members of Free Corps Denmark leaving for the Eastern Front from Copenhagen's Hellerup station
HQ of the SS-Schalburgkorps in Copenhagen in 1943
Leader (Chef) of Vichy France Marshal Philippe Pétain meeting Hitler at Montoire, 24 October 1940. (Hitler's interpreter, Dr Paul Schmidt, stands between them, while Joachim von Ribbentrop, the German foreign minister, stands to the right.)