Volksverwering
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"On 14 April 1941, after watching the German propaganda film Der Ewige Jude in Cine Rex, Flemish paramilitaries from the Volksverwering, VNV and Algemeene-SS Vlaanderen began a pogrom in the city of Antwerp. The mob, armed with iron bars, attacked and burned two synagogues in the city and threw the Torah scrolls onto the street. They then attacked the home of Markus Rottenburg, the town's chief rabbi. The police and fire brigade were summoned, but they were forbidden to intervene by the German authorities."--Sholem Stein |
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Volksverwering (soms ook: Volkswering) was een anti-Joodse organisatie van extreem-rechtse signatuur, actief in België van 1937 tot 1944. Het kerngebied van de beweging lag in Antwerpen. In het Frans noemde ze zich La Défense du Peuple.
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