During The War
See also: Belgium in World War IIAfter Belgium was attacked and its army surrendered on 28 May 1940, Adolf Hitler chose not to install a civilian government (as he had done in the Netherlands), but a military occupation, headed by general Alexander von Falkenhausen of the Wehrmacht. The Belgian administration remained in place and, under German supervision, governed Belgium, according to the developed theory of 'the lesser evil'.
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