LEOPOLD REMOVED TO GERMANY
LONDON, June 13. Within a few hours of the Allied landings in Normandy, the Germans removed King Leopold of Belgium to au unnamed destination in Germany. The King of the Belgians has been living in a castle near Brussels since Belgium was overrun four years ago. Tonight, tbe Belgian Prime Minister. M. L'ierlot. told his countrymen, in a broadcast from London, that the Kings removal was obviously part, of a series of Gorman measures in expectation of the arrival of the armies of liberation. He declared that King Leopold had consistently refused to exercise his power under German domination. Now, the Germans were hastening to put the finishing touches to the destruction of the Slate.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 221, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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119LEOPOLD REMOVED TO GERMANY Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 221, 15 June 1944, Page 5
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