Was Grandpa a Nazi?

Book:

Aerts, Koen, Dirk Luyten, Bart Willems, Paul Drossens, and Pieter Lagrou. Was opa een nazi? Speuren naar het oorlogsverleden van je familie (Was Grandpa a Nazi? Researching the war history of your family). Tielt: Lannoo N.V., 2017.

Brief summary

Around half a million Belgians – in Flanders, Brussels and Wallonia – have a family member who was ‘wrong’ during the Second World War. Grandpa, grandma, father, mother, uncle or aunt. Initially there were more than 400,000 files on suspects. Around 100,000 citizens actually received sentences, ranging from execution to imprisonment or loss of rights. Today, grandchildren and other family members are increasingly searching for the facts behind the events to come to terms with this past. In Was opa a Nazi?, war historians and archivists provide the tools for people to investigate for themselves this often unspoken about aspect of the war.