Fort of Huy Museum of Resistance

After the German Wehrmacht's invasion of Belgium in 1940, the fort was used as a Gestapo prison and as a collection camp. About 7,000 Belgians and foreigners were held captive here, among them many resistance fighters and political opponents. The Fort of Huy was one of the central departure points for transports from Belgium to the National Socialist concentration camps in the German Reich. Following the secret orders issued by the Chief of the Wehrmacht High Command Wilhelm Keitel, opponents of the occupation regime were deported without their families being informed. These measures, later known as the »Night and Fog Decree«, were meant to prevent the population from supporting the resistance movement. Jews, forced labourers, black marketers as well as farmers, who refused to pay duties, were also imprisoned at the fort. Since 1972, the fort has been under monument protection. In 1992, a museum dealing with the history of the resistance movement and presenting individual stories of people who were held captive at the Fort of Huy was opened.