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| Liberation of Belgium | |||||||||
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| Part of the Allied advance from Paris to the Rhine in World War II | |||||||||
 British tanks arrive in Brussels on 4 September 1944, ending the German occupation. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 United Kingdom United States Canada Poland Belgium Netherlands |
 Germany | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
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Bernard Montgomery Omar Bradley |
Adolf Hitler Walter Model | ||||||||
| Units involved | |||||||||
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21st Army Group 1st US Army | Army Group B | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 600,000 (U.S.) | |||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| 81,000 (U.S.) | 100,000 (Germany) | ||||||||
The Liberation of Belgium from German occupation began on 2 September 1944 when Allied forces entered the province of Hainaut[1] and was completed on 4 February 1945 with the liberation of the village of Krewinkel.[2] The liberation came after four years of German-occupied rule. The Belgian government was returned to power on 8 September 1944 after Allied forces had captured Brussels four days earlier.[3]
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Europe-Remembers-Brusselswas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Gotovitch, José; Aron, Paul, eds. (2008). "Krewinkel". Dictionnaire de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale en Belgique. Brussels: André Versaille éditeur. pp. 246–247. ISBN 978-2-87495-001-8.
- ^ Schrijvers, Peter (2012). "'A Modern Liberation'. Belgium and the start of the American Century 1944-1946". European Journal of American Studies. 7 (7–2). doi:10.4000/ejas.9695.