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I. Introduction I. Introduction
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II. Maurrasand mussuliniin French-Speaking Belgium In The 1920S II. Maurrasand mussuliniin French-Speaking Belgium In The 1920S
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III. Flemish Nationalism in the 1920s Between Democracy and Authoritarian Temptation III. Flemish Nationalism in the 1920s Between Democracy and Authoritarian Temptation
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IV. In the Shadow of Hitler and Mussolini: VNV, Verdinaso, and Léon Degrelle during the 1930s IV. In the Shadow of Hitler and Mussolini: VNV, Verdinaso, and Léon Degrelle during the 1930s
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V. Flemish and Walloon National Socialists during the German Occupation, 1940–1944 V. Flemish and Walloon National Socialists during the German Occupation, 1940–1944
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Bibliography Bibliography
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25 Belgium
Get accessBruno De Wever is Associate Professor of History at Ghent University. His publications include Oostfronters: Vlamingen in het Vlaams Legioen en de Waffen SS (2nd edn. Tielt-Weesp, 1985), Staf De Clercq (Brussels, 1989), and Greep naar de macht. Vlaams-nationalisme en Nieuwe Orde: Het VNV1933–1945 (2nd edn. Tielt-Gent, 1995).
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Published:18 September 2012
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Abstract
On the eve of the First World War, Belgium boasted a long tradition of stable civil democracy. Between the two wars, however, its government was challenged by fascist movements, which nevertheless did not succeed in destabilizing the country. In that respect, fascism in Belgium developed in a similar way to that in other West European democracies. Belgian liberal democracy and its nation state came under the pressure of two movements that were at odds with Belgian society as it developed after the First World War. In the first place, there was a reactionary Catholic and French-speaking Belgian nationalist movement that could not resign itself to the increased power of anticlerical and left-wing political forces in general, and of the socialist labour movement in particular. In the second place, there was a Flemish nationalist movement that was looking for confrontation with the Belgian state.
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