Brussels Occupied: Nazi Expansion Sweeps Belgium
German forces roll into Brussels, driving the Belgian government to flee and handing control of the capital over to Nazi occupation authorities. This seizure severs a critical Allied supply line and signals the rapid collapse of Western European resistance just weeks after the invasion of France begins.
May 10, 1940
86 years ago
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