Entre ressentiment et ré-éducation. L'Armée belge d'Occupation et les Allemands, 1945-1952 ; Between resentment and re-education. The Belgian Occupation Army and the Germans, 1945-1952

peer reviewed ; For six decades, between 1945 and 2005, Belgian officers and soldiers carried out part of their career or of their military service in Germany. Created as the Belgian Occupation Army, the name changed in the early 1950s to Belgian Forces in Germany, a symbolic name change that marked the beginning of an evolution during which the former enemy became a partner in the framework of NATO in 1955. The article focuses on the first years of this presence in Germany, when the memory of the Second World War and of the second occupation of Belgium by Germany was still fresh. It questions... Mehr ...