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Original Articles

Catholicism and Fascism in Belgium

Pages 343-352 | Published online: 18 May 2007
 

Notes

1. Els Witte, Jan Craeybeckx and Alain Meynen, Political history of Belgium from 1830 onwards (Antwerp: Standaard Uitgeverij, 2000).

2. André Tihon, “Les religieuses en Belgique du XVIIe siècle au XXe siècle. Approche statistique”, Belgisch Tijdschrift voor Nieuwste Geschiedenis, 7/1–2 (1976), pp.32–5.

3. Louis Vos, “The Flemish National Question”, in Kas Deprez, Louis Vos, eds, Nationalism in Belgium: Shifting Identities, 1780–1995 (London: Macmillan Press, 1998), pp.83–95.

4. Lieve Gevers, “’Voor God, Vaderland en Moedertaal’: Kerk en natievorming in België, 1830–1940”, Bijdragen tot de Eigentijdse Geschiedenis, 3 (1997), pp.33–6.

5. Alain Colignon, “A collaboration francophone: autopsie post portem”, in José Gotovitch, Chantal Kesteloot, eds, Collaboration, repression: Un passé qui résiste (Bruxelles: Labor, 2002), p.16.

6. Martin Conway, “Building the Christian City: Catholics and Politics in Inter‐War Francophone Belgium”, Past and Present, 128 (1990), pp.117–51.

7. Martin Conway, Collaboration in Belgium: Léon Degrelle and the Rexist Movement (London: Yale University Press, 1993), pp.2–20.

8. Bruno De Wever, Greep naar de macht: Vlaams‐nationalisme en Nieuwe Orde, Het VNV 1933–1945 (Tielt Ghent: Lannoo/Perspectief, 1994), pp.33–88; 93–125; and “Flemish National League”, in John Merriman, Jay Winter, eds, Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age War and Reconstruction (Farmington Hills: Thomson/Gale, 2006), pp.1102–03.

9. Roger Griffin, The Nature of Fascism (London: Pinter, 1991), pp.38–40.

10. Romain Vanlandschoot, “Verbond van Dietse Nationaal Solidaristen”, in Reginald De Schryver, Bruno De Wever, eds, Nieuwe Encyclopedie van de Vlaamse Beweging (Tielt: Lannoo, 1998), pp. 3192–3204.

11. Stanley Payne defines the FLN as protofascist. He misrepresents the party as neither antisemitic nor anti‐parliamentary, and therefore not comparable with a fascist movement, see Stanley Payne, A History of Fascism 1914–1945 (London: UCL Press, 1995), p. 300.

12. Stanley Payne’s qualification of the FNL as ‘highly Catholic, in a orthodox sense’ should thus be put into perspective, ibid.

13. Emmanuel Gerard, De Katholieke Partij in crisis. Partijpolitiek leven in België (1918–1940) (Louvain: Kritak, 1985), pp.457–69; De Wever (note 8), pp.223–5.

14. Centre for Historical Research and Documentation War and Contemporary Society (Brussels); Documents of the Belgian Military Courts, 927, Speech of Staf De Clercq, 6 June 1937.

15. Centre for Historical Research and Documentation War and Contemporary Society (Brussels); Documents of the Belgian Military Courts, 931, Speech of Staf De Clercq, 13 February 1937.

16. Conway (note 7), pp.12–20.

17. De Wever (note 8), pp.252–60, 335–40.

18. Ibid, pp.343–458; Fabrice Maerten, Franz Selleslagh, and Mark Van den Wijngaert, eds, Entre la peste et le choléra: Vie et attitude des catholiques belges sous l’occupation (Gerpinnes: Quorum/Ceges/Arca, 1999).

19. Bruno De Wever, Staf De Clercq (Brussels: Grammens, 1989), p.217.

20. Archives of the German Foreign Affairs, Interior Affairs, Belgium 1940–1943; Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to Joachim von Ribbentrop, n.d. (date of receipt: 29 January 1941).

21. De Wever (note 8), pp.551–98.

22. Romain Vanlandschoot, Kapelaan Verschaeve: Biografie (Tielt/Ghent : Lannoo/Perspectief, 1998), pp.373–91; and “La tentative de Cyriel Verschaeve pour réconcilier national‐socialisme et christianisme (1941–1942)”, in Maerten, Selleslagh, Van den Wijngaert, Entre la peste et le choléra (note 18), pp.166–74. The document has been published in Cyriel Verschaeve, Verzameld Werk (Bruges: Zeemeeuw, 1961), Vol. VIII, pp. 553–641.

23. Conway (note 7).

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