1943 in Belgium

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This is a page of the events in the year 1943 in Belgium.

## Incumbents

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* Monarch: Leopold III (prisoner)[1]
* Prime Minister: Hubert Pierlot (in exile)
* Head of the occupying Military Administration in Belgium and Northern France: Alexander von Falkenhausen
* Head of the administrative staff of the Occupation: Eggert Reeder

## Events

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* 13 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.[2]: 854
* 17 January – Léon Degrelle declares that Walloons are ethnically Germanic.[2]: 854
* 20 January – Solo airstrike on the Gestapo's Brussels headquarters by Jean de Selys Longchamps.[2]: 855
* 27 February – 750 Belgian police officers and gendarmes placed in detention by the occupying forces.[2]: 856
* 7 March – Decree obliging students to spend six months as labourers.[2]: 854
* 10 March – Decree confiscating church bells to be melted down for metal.[2]: 854
* 15 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.[2]: 854
* 5 April – Americans bomb Mortsel, killing over a thousand civilians.[2]: 855
* 19 April – Members of the Resistance briefly stop a deportation train carrying Jewish prisoners to Auschwitz concentration camp.
* 20 April – Resistance attack on the office for conscription of compulsory labour destroys a large part of their files.[2]: 855
* 16 July – Honoré Van Waeyenbergh, Rector of the Catholic University of Leuven, sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment for refusing to give the occupying forces access to university enrolment records.[2]: 855
* 6 August – Occupying forces confiscate 60% of Belgian textile stock.[2]: 854
* 7 September – Bombing of Brussels destroys over a thousand buildings.[2]: 856
* 9 November – Resistance distribute an uncensored counterfeit edition of Le Soir[2]: 856
* 6 December – Occupying forces requisition 129,000 tonnes of agricultural produce.[2]: 854

## Arts and architecture

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Performances

* 17 March – First performance of Georges Sion's comedy La Matrone d'Ephèse in the Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels.[2]: 854

## Births

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* 6 March – Noël Devisch, businessman
* 23 March – Marva Mollet, singer
* 5 April – Miet Smet, politician
* 14 April – Norbert De Cuyper, politician
* 25 April – Jean-Jacques Cassiman, geneticist
* 3 June – André Ernotte, film director (died 1999)
* 2 July – Walter Godefroot, cyclist
* 5 July – André Smets, politician (died 2019)
* 1 September – Claude De Bruyn, road safety advocate (died 2020)
* 1 October – Raymond Langendries, politician
* 5 October – Josly Piette, politician
* 1 November – Salvatore Adamo, singer
* 25 November – Victor Albert, politician (died 2005)
* 1 December – Danny Huwé, journalist (died 1989)

## Deaths

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* 27 January – Louis Fonsny, collaborationist newspaper editor.[2]: 854
* 15 April – Paul Colin (born 1895), collaborationist art critic
* 10 May – Arnaud Fraiteur (born 1924), resistance fighter
* 16 August – Jean de Selys Longchamps (born 1912), fighter pilot
* 8 October – Gustave De Smet (born 1877), painter

## References

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1. ^ "Leopold III, king of Belgium". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Alain de Gueldre et al., Kroniek van België (Antwerp and Zaventem, 1987).

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